Hate to give up

[Shannon McMackin]

On 06/01/2009 05:04 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> John Heinen wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/01/2009 12:50 PM, John Heinen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 2009/6/1 John Heinen<hensandpat at earthlink.net>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> NoOp wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>> Answer the other questions in the thread, otherwise you are simply
>>>>>>> continuing wasting people's time John.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry, it seems to me that I did. ......the second suggestion........
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe I'm blind but I can't see anywhere an answer to this question,
>>>>> for example:
>>>>>
>>>>> What happens if you type the following in a terminal?
>>>>> ping yahoo.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> unknown host yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> > From Dotan in this thread:
>>> ====
>>> Post the output of this command:
>>> $ ping 74.125.67.100
>>>
>>> This will check your (and google's) internet connection, without
>>> regard to DNS or Firefox.
>>> ====
>>>
>>> Also:
>>> $ ping 209.85.171.100
>>>
>>> Both are google.com hosts.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> $ ping 74.125.57.100
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.67.100 56(84)bytes of data
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.57 100 1cmp seq 1 ttl=51 time 180 ms
>> and so on and on
>>
>> $ping 209.85.171.100
>> 64 bytes from 209.85.171.100 1cmp seq =1 ttl=24 time =199ms and so on and on
>>
>> it seems to me that the internet connection with my provider is working
>> just fine and that the problem lies with firefox. John
>>
>>
>      Now if you would again in a terminal type:
>
> $ ping yahoo.com
>
> and tell us what happened. I am wondering if there is no DNS ip given in
> his computer.
>
>
> Karl
>
>
Depending on how the router is giving out network addresses.  If John is 
using static IPs, he'll have to define his DNS on his system as that of 
his router which should in turn use the DNS of the provider or at least 
populate with that.

Using NM and DHCP, I'm getting my provider's DNS info from my router.