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Weird Internet problem on my VPS
adultbear5
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in Help
Guys I need help, I'm new to VPS'es.
Its really a weird problem and I haven't found anything on google about it so I'm asking here.
Everything download related just simply doesn't work. When I use wget i get "unable to r
esolve host address ...".
I try pinging google and i get "uknown host google.com".
BUT, I can connect to it with putty just fine, my teamspeak server is working etc.
So everything upload related works, everything download related doesn't work (atleast I think thats the problem)
So if anyone can help me, I would be grateful.
Comments
Check if you have a DNS server configured.
first thought: dns
Looks like you can't lookup domain names.
Try different DNS servers for /etc/resolv.conf and what VIRT are you using?
cat /etc/resolv.conf ? Just set it to nameserver 8.8.8.8 and nameserver 8.8.4.4
As others already pointed out most definitely a DNS issue.
What is your /etc/resolv.conf?
Put this in /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
And if you have IPv6 add those too:
nameserver 2620:0:ccc::2
nameserver 2620:0:ccd::2
nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8888
nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8844
First two in each category are opendns the others are google's.
It works!
I set the nameservers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 in the resolv.conf.
Thank you so much
Just keep in mind that all your DNS lookups are now sent over the Internet and to Google.
Thats the worrying bit
Use Level3's DNS servers?
So much better.