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jiri.erhart · Joined: 29 Mar 2010 Posts: 3

Hi,

I’m using Puppy 4.2 and I have this problem, my internet connection worked fine and automaticaly since I tried to connect my mobile phone via IRDA to the computer. I had no success, but since that time I can’t browse internet pages with any of my browsers (Seamonkey, Firefox). It’s a weird situation, becouse when I use MTR - Traceroute it works fine, but when I open any of my browsers it just displays a mesage "Address Not Found" without trying to connect, couse the lights on my LAN port indicating the network trafic don’t light. I use via_rhine modul (It worked OK before).

Please help me, I have no idea what to do with it

Béèm · Posted: Mon 29 Mar 2010, 16:30 Post subject:

It could be an indication that you have no dns servers configured.
Normally the ISP to which you connect is responsible for this.
Contact them and ask.

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

If you have no entries in /etc/resolv.conf, try these:
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
nameserver 63.226.12.96
nameserver 72.3.208.251

jiri.erhart · Joined: 29 Mar 2010 Posts: 3

Thanks a lot, it works now as well as before

Béèm · Posted: Tue 30 Mar 2010, 10:58 Post subject:

Glad it worked for you.
But the base problem remains, why didn't you get a dns server address.

Now for the sake of fellow posters, could you edit the subject of your initial post and add [SOLVED] to it.

jiri.erhart · Joined: 29 Mar 2010 Posts: 3

I haven’t wrote it, but I found out IP address of my default DNS server and add it into the /etc/resolv.conf file. In fact the problem wasn’t that I haven’t had no DNS server addresses defined in that file, but that the file showed an error "Too many symbolic links" and I wasn’t able to open it. So I rewrote it with a new file with IP address of my DNS server. Is that ok?

Béèm · Posted: Thu 01 Apr 2010, 17:16 Post subject:

As your connection works, yes it's ok.
Through your connection you should have gotten the dns server info resolv.conf.

Are you sure you didn't something bizarre to have that situation on too many symbolic links?

In the several years I follow this forum, I don't think I saw ever something like this.

Thanks for putting solved.