"abhinav sahai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> hi all of you,
> i have installed ubuntu5.10 recently on my system and so am a newbie. i face
> a very peculiar problem. my problem is that i cannot access my mail in
> ubuntu. as soon as i type gmail.com in firefox an error " google.com could
> not be found" is displayed. on yahoo as soon as i enter any email id and
> pass and press enter straightaway i get the message "login.yahoo.com could
> not be found" and same is the case with hotmail. i can login to other sites
> like ubuntuforums or even rediff.
> i stay in a hostel and use proxy settings.
> apart from that my connection works pretty well.
> thanx for your time.

Have a look at /etc/resolv.conf file when you are NOT connected to the
net, and check if its contents are the same when you are connected.

When connected, /etc/resolv.conf should contain the entries for your
ISP's DNS servers.

If not, tell whatever program you are using to connect to the net to
select the DNS servers  automatically. 

-- 
Mahesh T. Pai   ||  http://paivakil.blogspot.com


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