Odd DNS problem

[Ed Smits]

Just moved to Europe from Canada, got broadband access last night,
fired up my laptop. I normally run Feisty but have an XP emergency
dualboot option. Connects to the Internet just fine, however I am
getting more than the usual number of server not found errors in
Firefox. Not a big deal until I wanted to download the latest VMWare
install file, and I can't get to anything at VMWare, server not found.

I'm physically connected to the modem, set for roaming, so have no
entries in hosts etc that shouldn't be there. The router is running
DHCP and DNS, and for the most part I can get to most of the sites I
need. I assumed the problem was with my ISP's DNS setup, however as a
test I booted into XP, I can get to VMWare using IE6 with no problem,
so it seems to be correctly resolving itself. I downloaded the package
and installed VMWare in Ubuntu and set up XP as a client, opened that
up and same thing, I can get to VMWare via the bridged network
connection from Ubuntu but not from Ubuntu itself.

As a test, I just installed IE6 for Linux, same thing, can't get to
VMWare. I tried to access it from the link on the Wikipedia entry,
server not found, so it's more than just a browser issue.

Any ideas?


ED