cant ping external website

[Donny George]

the file resolve.conf
nameserver 132.230.200.200
nameserver 132.230.200.200

i am able to ping the nameserver ip succesfully

but when i ping 217.72.195.42 its kind of still and then later shows unknown
host


i can ping other machines on the network


the ifconfig is as follows

inet addr:10.4.139.3 Bcast:132.230.139.255 Mask:255.255.255.0


the /etc/network/interfaces is

  # The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

 # The primary network interface

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet static

address 10.4.139.3

netmask 255.255.255.0

network 10.4.139.0

broadcast 10.4.139.255

gateway 10.4.139.254

# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed

dns-nameservers 132.230.200.200

dns-search imtek.uni-freiburg.de



thankyou for your help in advance

don





On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Markus Schönhaber <
ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de> wrote:

> Donny George:
>
> > i have set up a new ubuntu 8.04 and am trying to get the internet
> > connectivity. but unfortunately even after setting up the ip, the gateway
> > and also the file resolve.conf with the nameserver ip, the result that i
> get
> > when i ping www.web.de is ping:unknown host www.web.de
> >
> > i looked for many threads regarding to this in the forums but cudnt yet
> get
> > a convincing answer
>
> The first step is to find out what exactly is wrong. Among the things
> you can do are:
> - post your /etc/resolv.conf maybe there's an error in it
> - do a
> ping 217.72.195.42
> (217.72.195.42 is what my DNS gave me as IP of www.web.de)
> - do a
> host www.web.de
> - ping the IP of the nameserver
> - do a
> telnet <IP of the nameserver> domain
> - if there's some other machine/device connected via IP in your local
> net, ping it's IP
> - post the output of
> ifconfig
>
> Regards
>   mks
>
>
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