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That certainly sounds like adding a proxy would be unlikely to fix anything, while removing or editing one is a common one. I can guarantee I do not currently use one. You mentioned a couple times checking the host settings. Could you expand on that a little? Also, thank you for spending so much tim...

Exactly. Now you understand why this is driving me insane! The simple fact that it can serve webpages to visitors means it can connect to the internet somehow, just not when I tell it to directly... Your last comment before If all fails, except the DNS resolving, then you have to look at your Host, ...

Argh! Traceroute isn't installed... The program 'traceroute' can be found in the following packages: * traceroute * traceroute-nanog Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package> Ping http://www.google.com gave me 74.125.113.103, which successfully directs me to google in a browser, so DNS is definit...

Thanks for the presence of mind to remove that, wasn't even thinking about spam! I can in fact ping the router via the local .1 address, and pinging something far away (like yahoo) resolves the name fine so far as I can tell 18:16:33 {~} $ ping www.yahoo.com PING any-fp3-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com (98.139...

I do understand the why, but the regex can definitely be improved! Anyway, I won't dwell on that any further. /etc/network/interfaces # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.2...

Hello all! I have been bouncing between posts all day and none of them seem to help, so I gave up and registered so I could post specifics. Here's the rundown: I am running Ubuntu Server 10.04 on the latest version of VirtualBox (4.1.8). My host system is Windows XP SP3 (32 bit) I am running a webse...