[PLUG] internet access problem

[Mehul Ved]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Dnyanraj Mali <dnyanraj.mali at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was not pinging primary DNS 202.54.10.2, but still my skype account was
> working fine, but i was not able to access any site from any browser (i
> tried firefox, floc & chrome). Also my terminal was not pinging the DNS.
>
> I have not installed any firewall & any other application.
>
> I am using ubuntu 10.04, I checked my resolv.conf file to check if my DNS
> entries are correct, i did route -n which gives correct information,
> ifconfig also returns correct information.
>
> Has anyone else has faced the similar problem?
> Am i missing something?

Probably your DNS servers had a problem. Did you try pinging some
external IP address?
You could try using publicly available DNS servers like Google
DNS(8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4.), OpenDNS(208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220) or the
ones in 4.2.2.1 to 4.2.2.6 series.