server not found

[ned410]

using mageia3, laptop has been used on a lot of networks with no problems until now..web browser can go to mageia home page and navigate site but cannot go anywhere else w/o getting server not found, can connect and get updates also, I'm at a loss as to what to check
I hope someone can point me in the right direction
thanks

[wintpe]

on the face of it yes a wierd sounding symptom.

but ignore that, just go back to basics

open a terminal switch user to root and type

first thing attempt to do a dns lookup.

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nslookup http://www.microsoft.com

does it come back with a list of ipaddresses.

if not, check /etc/resolv.conf

does this have a line

nameserver 192.168.x.x

if it does can you ping it.

now use nslookup directly with that address

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nslookup http://www.microsoft.com 192.168.x.x

does that come back with an ipaddress.

this is what you should get back in both cases.

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[peter@localhost ~]$ nslookup http://www.microsoft.com
Server:         208.67.222.222
Address:        208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
http://www.microsoft.com       canonical name = toggle.www.ms.akadns.net.
toggle.www.ms.akadns.net        canonical name = g.www.ms.akadns.net.
g.www.ms.akadns.net     canonical name = lb1.www.ms.akadns.net.
Name:   lb1.www.ms.akadns.net
Address: 65.55.57.27

if that does not work try putting 65.55.57.27 in the address bar of your browser.

does that work

if so then this is all pointing to a dns problem.

perhaps you are not getting a good dns from dhcp server

regards peter