can't ping by host name?

[H@L0_F00]

I can't ping google.com from my ubuntu box that I'm sshed into. I pinged it from my WinXP box, got the ip, and then I pinged that ip from ubuntu which worked fine

no hostnames can be pinged but pinging their ip works fine which might be a real problem because I planning on setting up Apache on it :(

anybody have any idea what could be wrong and/or how I could go about fixing it?

Thanks in advance ;)

[ssmithisme]

If you are going to use it as a webserver you dont really need to resolve hostnames on it.

But its some sort of DNS error. Is there anything that could be messing with DNS servers.

Is the IP on ubuntu static and did you specify the correct DNS server to use?

[H@L0_F00]

yes it's static. how do i set the DNS server? is that the same as nameserver? I've red about nameservers but haven't figured out how to config or fix it <_<

[ssmithisme]

You say the IP address is static and i assume you dont have a GUI to configure network settings.

You can use your preffered text editor but i am going to say "nano" for this.

You will edit your "/etc/resolv.conf" file to change the DNS server

sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

There should be entries there called nameserver.

Change them to the IP address of you DNS server(s)

EXAMPLE:

nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XX

nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XX

Once you save the file you should be good to go

[H@L0_F00]

haha after you told me it was DNS i googled it and found out what to do and it was exactly what you said lol thanks alot though ;)