Cannot Surf Internet, but I can Ping

[George Georgiou]

Since the network is working then it is your DNS server info that is wrong
or you have some spyware that is hijacking these settings.
george

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Sasha Tsykin
Sent: Saturday, 28 January 2006 4:19 PM
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: Re: Cannot Surf Internet, but I can Ping

Kevin Purcell 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
>
>   
It sounds like you can access your isp but not the rest of the www. Call 
your isp and complain. Maybe they can help you.

Sasha

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