ping not resolving names

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Hello, 

I am having trouble pinging hostnames. For some reason, ping is not resolving 
hostnames


philsf at philsf-laptop:~$ ping www.google.com 
ping: unknown host www.google.com 

OTOH, network is fully operational, and pinging the ip works as expected



philsf at philsf-laptop:~$ host www.google.com 
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com. 
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.165.103 
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.165.99 
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.165.104 
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.165.147 
philsf at philsf-laptop:~$ ping -c1 209.85.165.103 
PING 209.85.165.103 (209.85.165.103) 56(84) bytes of data. 
64 bytes from 209.85.165.103: icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=165 ms 
 
--- 209.85.165.103 ping statistics --- 
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms 
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 165.888/165.888/165.888/0.000 ms 

I don't know what's happening, but here's some more information that might be 
useful if someone is able to help. Any ideas?


philsf at philsf-laptop:~$ ifconfig eth1 
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:BF:26:87:DE 
          inet addr:192.168.1.11  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
          RX packets:6858 errors:0 dropped:181 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:17995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2527288 (2.4 MiB)  TX bytes:1116500 (1.0 MiB) 
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000 
 
philsf at philsf-laptop:~$ route -n 
Kernel IP routing table 
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface 
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1 
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0 
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth1 
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1 
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     1000   0        0 eth0