Cannot Surf Internet, but I can Ping

[Julio Biason]

On 27/01/06, Kevin Purcell <kevin at kevinpurcell.org> wrote:
> 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?

Looks like you have a DNS problem. Your router has a DNS or something?
You ISP gave you their DNS servers IPs? You can enter any of those on
System -> Administration -> Networking (there is a "DNS" tab in
there).

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Julio Biason <julio.biason at gmail.com>