unresolved hostname www.google.com not found

invalidunicode · 06-09-2003, 03:15 PM

I booted up slack today, i connected to the internet, i fired up mozilla and it just sits there saying it cant find any webpage i type in, tried konqueror and netscape exact same thing, check my ppp connection it's on at 45,000Kb's but every freakin web browser cant find any page i type in. So i rebooted, reconnected, same crap all over again. This happened once before and i fixed it by reformating and reinstalling but i really don't want to have to reconfigure my system all over again. It sounds like it could be some network misconfiguration but i havent messed with any eth or ppp config files and my ppp connection is my only network connection i have. Any ideas?

phishman3579 · 06-09-2003, 03:21 PM

Sounds like your not talking to the DNS servers for you ppp connection. Try connecting to the IP addy.

try 216.239.53.99

That's google.

emence · 06-09-2003, 03:21 PM

make sure you can ping an external IP address. Also make sure there are some entries in the nameserver file (/etc/resolv.conf).

N_A_J_M · 06-09-2003, 04:46 PM

i had this problem once before, do you have a network card in your pc aswell as a modem?

it is a problem with your default route.

i remember doing something like route del -net 0.0.0.0 once connected and then everything worked (remember to reconnect again)

for some reason, instead of sending the requests to the modem it would send them to the nic instead.

it looks like there's another interface that's set as the default gateway on your computer.

before you connect up, type...
/sbin/route -n

and look up 0.0.0.0 in the destination column, look at the interface column on that line.
And you'd have to stop that interface from being the default gateway.
I'm not sure where this is in slackware, in redhat it's in /etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-...

wr3ck3d · 06-10-2003, 01:54 PM

haha, i knew it!!! This is the story. You just hit enter when you used pppsetup at the DNS server right?? Well, you have been using a DoD dns server this whole time and it just went out yesterday. I went throught the same thing, just realized a little while ago and came here and knew i would see a post about this.

Use this dns server for now.

207.217.120.83

in your /etc/resolv.conf replace old IP with this one.