Temporary failure resolving

[jackslack]

I get a "Temporary failure resolving" error when I try to do a apt-get update and when I ping a site, such as google, I get a unknown host google.com. By the way this computer is getting its internet connection from a windows computer that has ICS enabled.

[bigtomrodney]

Can you post the results of

/sbin/ifconfig
cat /etc/resolv.conf

That should get us started as to the problem. I would imagine it is just a simple DNS problem.

[jackslack]

/etc/resolv.conf

search bghvoclabs
nameserver 10.1.1.1

/sbin/ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:17:CA:38
inet addr:10.1.1.5 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2921 (2.8 KiB) TX bytes:0 (1154 KiB)
Base address:0xecc0 Memory:ff8e0000-ff900000

[jackslack]

opps
RX packets:26
TX packets:14

[bigtomrodney]

As a test try

cat /etc/resolv.conf  > ~/resolv.conf.bak
sudo echo nameserver 208.67.222.220 >> /etc/resolv.conf

And try it again...

[jackslack]

I tried this and then tried to apt-get update and ping google.com but i get the same results.

[iwanabeguru]

did you set the gateway correctly?

use the route command

#> route add default gw gw_ip_address

[jackslack]

Yes, the gateway is set to 10.1.1.1 that is my windows computer. So are the dns-nameserver (in /etc/network/interfaces) and the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf

[iwanabeguru]

the gateway not equal to the dns server

the dns server isn't your window machine ,it is the gateway
so confgiure your windows machine as the gateway

#> route add default gw 10.1.1.1

check the the nameservers on the windows machine and use thats
if you are using dhcp you needn't set up the nameservers

[jackslack]

So, should my linux box have a static ip (how its setup right now) or should I use dhcp? My windows computer has two nics, one connected the the internet, the other going to the linux box. I want all network traffic to be routed, through the windows copmuter, so on the network you can only see the windows box, but the linux box can access the internet and get packages for etch.