Internet access problem

[R Page-Jones]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> R Page-Jones:
>
>   
>> When I put wget http://www.google.com in the command I get: 
>> robin at robin-desktop:~$ wget http://www.google.com --2009-11-09
>> 19:48:47--  http://www.google.com/ Resolving www.google.com...
>> 1.0.0.0 Connecting to www.google.com|1.0.0.0|:80...
>>     
>
> Not even remotely good. You should never see a public name
> resolved to the address 1.0.0.0 (hm, and I thought we had name
> resolution already eliminated from the list of possible problems).
> Please show the output of (on the command line)
> cat /etc/hosts
> and
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
>   
Results as follows:
robin at robin-desktop:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1    localhost
127.0.1.1    robin-desktop

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
robin at robin-desktop:~$
robin at robin-desktop:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 192.168.1.1
robin at robin-desktop:~$


>   
>> If I click update manager and then click the "check" box  it says 
>> "Downloading Package Information". After a couple of minutes a
>> message comes up "An Error Has Occurred" with the following details: 
>> W: Failed to fetch 
>> http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic/Release.gpg Cannot
>> initiate the connection to gb.archive.ubuntu.com:80 
>> (2a01:450:10:1::10). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP:
>> 2a01:450:10:1::10 80]
>>     
>
> Hm, interesting. gb.archive.ubuntu.com is resolved to a correct
> address. Although it doesn't help you much since you've probably have no
> IPv6 connectivity. What does
> host gb.archive.ubuntu.com
> show?
> If you go to
> System/Administration/Software Sources
> an change "Download from:" to "Main server", does "check" in update
> manager work better?
>   
No, it is the same.
>   
>> As an experiment I put an xubuntu 9.40 live CD into my computer. The
>>  program came up OK and connected to the internet without any
>> problems. I checked out a few web addresses and navigated round the
>> web a bit to check out the operation. All was OK.. (xubantu  8.04
>> also accesses the internet without any problem.)
>>     
>
> Which confirms that it's a configuration problem.
> Did your network access ever work on this Ubuntu install?
>   
When I insert the CD rom and run 9.10 from live cd rom, it is still not 
possible to access the internet.

Regards
Rob.