Loss of Internet Contivity

[Doug Hardie]

On Aug 20, 2008, at 01:54, Warren Liddell wrote:

> Im not sure what has happend, but after my last portupgrade i seem  
> to have lost internet contivity on the network .. ic an get a IP  
> address from the router, can ping the router no worries, all other  
> machine son the network are able to use the internet, just mine  
> seems to have lost it, attached is a brief paste of ifconfig + ping  
> to router .. anyone got thoughts//suggestions ?

The attachment shows that DNS is unable to find the IP address.  This  
appears to be a DNS resolver issue, not a network issue.  Check /etc/ 
resolv.conf and make sure its correct.  Then check the indicated DNS  
servers using dig.