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>>>>> Rohit Kumar writes:
   Rohit> Sunil Ghai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

   >>
   >> Hi Rohit,
   >>
   >> You might be having DNS problem. Make sure your DNS servers are properly
   >> configured.
   >> What does firefox show when you enter any address? Does it keep on showing
   >> "Looking up.."? or what error ultimately comes?
   >>
   Rohit> Hi Sunil,

   Rohit> I checked out /etc/resolv.conf.
   Rohit> I can ping the nameserver ip address in that file.

Verify if nameservers are responding to DNS requests using:

$ dig [some-domain-name] @nameserver-1-in-resolv-conf

If that works successfully, check contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf,
esp. the hosts line. Following is the hosts line from my
/etc/nsswitch.conf:

hosts:       files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns

If hosts line is okay, try stopping 'nscd' (if it is running) and then
do:

$ getent hosts [some-domain-name]

If DNS resolution is not working, try resolving using some other
nameservers, like 4.2.2.2, 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 .

If DNS resolution using other nameservers is also not working, try
visiting http://72.14.207.99/ in web-browser if that works. Then you
need to figure out which box is dropping UDP packets to port 53. You can
also try adding '+tcp' to 'dig' arguments to see if name-resolution over
TCP works or not.

   Rohit> Also all browsers instantly show a server not found page.
   Rohit> None of them even lingers on the *Looking up...* status.

This means DNS is failing...

   Rohit> thanks,
   Rohit> rohit.

HTH
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