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gnome-nettool package

can access router but no internet

Asked by heather michel

I have the latest ubuntu release. We were watching a video on facebook yesterday evening and the internet died. (I am using my other machine now which is windows.) Anyway, my linux machine can see the router (if I open firefox and type in the 178 etc I see the router settings etc) but if I try to go to the internet I get a cannot find the server message.
Any thoughts?
It has worked up until last evening so maybe there was spyware or a bug that actually affected linux?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you run:

echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf

Then try the web, does the web work? If so, we can make it permanent..

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heather michel (hmemichel) said : 		#2

Yes that worked! Can we make it permanent?
Thank you!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

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