ping not resolving names

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Thursday 26 July 2007 20:49:57 NoOp wrote:

> > This is my ISP DNS. It is operational
> 
> Thanks I see that it is running dns on 53, but the performance is
> sporadic. I get:

Now that's interesting. This explains other problems I ocasionally have - darn 
ISP... What command did you issue here?

But still the ping problem is definitely consistent.

I am watching 

watch -n 1 ping www.google.com

as it shows "unknown host" every second, never changing.

> when it responds, but then other times it doesn't respond at all. Of
> course that could be network problems between here and there, but you
> might want to keep checking it for awhile and or try 14 or 15 in place
> of 19.

Thanks, I'll trying those for a while. I don't have high hopes this is the 
problem, but 

I should add that this problem does NOT occur in my desktop.

Both the desktop and laptop are running feisty, but the laptop is so RAM-less 
(64MB) I only have the patience to run console mode only. So I didn't install 
ubuntu-desktop, just ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu-standard, and proceeded 
manually installing packages I need from there.

Maybe I'm missing something here? What could possibly be needed for ping (and 
only ping) to resolve hostnames, that's not a dependency of ubuntu-*minimal*?

regards
FF
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