Odd DNS problem

[Rashkae]

Ed Smits wrote:
> 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
> 

What's in your /etc/resolv.conf file?

Also, since Windows seems to be working, what does Windows think it's 
DNS server is?  This should be the same as nameserver in the resolv.conf 
file.. (This value should be set automatically by the DHCP client.  But 
to start, I would verify that this is working.)

Are you able to resolve any domain names at all?