Cannot Surf Internet, but I can Ping

[Steve Tripp]

It's a DNS issue.  In Gnome go to Administration and Networking then
select the DNS tab.  If it is empty, find the DNS servers for your ISP
(in your router's settings) and put them in there, although if you are
using DHCP it is usually automatic.

Using command line, open /etc/resolv.conf and insert nameserver and
the ip of the dns server like so:

nameserver  1.1.1.1

Hope this helps.
Steve Tripp

On 1/27/06, Kevin Purcell <kevin at kevinpurcell.org> wrote:
> Just installed Ubuntu and am having the following problem.
>
> I opened Firefox and could not surf.  I entered my router's address and it
> is connected to the Internet.  So I tried pinging it and it sees the router
> and my network storage device.  So the network works.  I then tried pining
> (in terminal) the address of my ISP listed in the status page of my Linksys
> Router (it is a WRT54G).  It pinged okay without any packet loss.  A little
> slower than in Windows, but at least it works. Don't know any other Internet
> numeral addresses, so don't know if I can ping anything other than my ISP.
> I tired pinging yahoo.com and google.com and microsoft.com and all failed.
>
> Any idea how to fix this?
>
> Thanks
>
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