<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rich,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>First off I would like to stay "WAY TO GO!" for sticking in there. Most of us have been using LINUX for many years and have forgotten that the first time is quite the learning experience. Heck, the first time installing any distro is still a learning experience as they all do stuff slightly different. I started off with LINUX when the 2.0 kernel just came out (using Slackware) when their was no GUI install or tools and everything was done via the command line. Talk about a learning curve after being an NT person. Second, just about everything in LINUX is tied to name resolution. If this is not working correctly, then stuff on your system like browsing the net will not work correctly. LINUX is not as forgiving as Windows on this.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Using Ubuntu, you will want to get to know "apt." Apt is a powerful and great tool to install/upgrade packages. "apt-get" will be the apt tool you probably use the most. Also, just to point out... All of your network settings are stored under /etc/network/ /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf. Take a look at the "resolvconf" package in the UBUNTU repository. This may help you out with the DNS issues you are having. The easiest thing to do however would be to set the DNS servers in your router to point to your ISPs DNS servers instead of the internal address of your router.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Have fun,</DIV><DIV>Rick</DIV><DIV> <BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 10, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Rich Nagel wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I was having problems with Internet access - basically, the Mozilla browser would start up and almost never go anywhere. When I'd put in a site like <A href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</A> or <A href="http://ubuntulinux.org">http://ubuntulinux.org</A> the browser would sit there with the little circle spinning and a message at the bottom of the screen saying "Finding site." I was able to use the "Network Tools" and confirm that I could PING both servers, plus I'd downloaded those OS updates earlier so I knew I had valid Internet access.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">My network:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"> <DIV><BR>(Internet/ISP)<BR> |<BR>69.xxx.xxx.xxx<BR> |<BR>Actiontec DSL modem/router <BR> |<BR>192.168.0.1<BR> |<BR>Linksys BEFS41 - DHCP enabled, UPnP enabled, etc.<BR> |<BR>192.168.1.1<BR> |<BR>Cisco 2924EN switch(10/100 24port)<BR> |<BR>(All PCs in the house)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>Okay, so on all of my Windows boxes, the Primary DNS is 192.168.0.1 probably because that's what the Linksys router is getting told by the Actiontec modem/router. And this presents no problem to the Windows machines - they surf the net, ftp, email, etc. without any problems at all. On a hunch, I decided to go into the network settings on the Linux box and change the DNS from 192.168.0.1 to 216.165.129.158 which is the Primary DNS server that the Actiontec router gets from the ISP. Upon doing so, the Linux box is now able to get out to any website without any problem, ie. it's working as it should.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So, the upside is that I can now browse the web on a Linux box, and I have the satisfaction of having solved the problem on my own. :) The downside is that I still don't understand why it failed to work in the first place when the Windows PCs all work fine with the DNS being 192.168.0.1 :(</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> </FONT><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Anybody got an idea?<BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">grlug mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:grlug@grandrapids-lug.org">grlug@grandrapids-lug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://grlug.org/mailman/listinfo/grlug">http://grlug.org/mailman/listinfo/grlug</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>