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<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>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My network:</FONT></DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>Anybody got an idea?<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>