I can ping the google.com ip addresses (209.85.231.104) but can't ping the FQDN, obviously DNS is broken. I can also ping the nameserver ip addresses specified in /etc/resolv.conf. -- Gaurav On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Gaurav Nangla <gaurav.knangla at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I've setup a Centos 5.4 (x86_64) box in a VM recently; the trouble is I just > can't get internet to work on it. > > Pinging the resolved google.com ips, nameserver ips works fine but DNS > lookup queries don't. > > Here's some of the digging around that I did: > > dig google.com > ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5 <<>> google.com > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > > nslookup google.com > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > > I didn't observe any UDP/TCP packets during dig and nslookup either > > cat /etc/resolv.conf > ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script > > nameserver 208.67.220.220 > > nameserver 208.67.222.222 > > Also my /etc/nsswitch.conf is in order and contains the "hosts: files dns" > entry. > > What could be wrong? > > -- > Best Regards, > Gaurav > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100308/298abbbd/attachment-0003.html>