Cannot Surf Internet, but I can Ping

[Eric Dunbar]

I'll add a me too.

Until Monday I was getting ready to toss my router and buy a new one
until I had the epiphany that my problem was possibly with the DNS
server in the router -- looking up URLs would take FOREVER, but, once
a connection was established I would have normal ADSL connection
speeds. I manually populated the DNS server entries in my router
(using the very same DNS server IPs that it reported in its Router
Status page ;-) and my internet is much better now.

Now, this leads me to wonder if my router is dying anyway.

Eric.

On 1/27/06, Steve Tripp <progressivepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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