Question
ping google.com: unknown host (can still ping IPs)
- Posted on October 27, 2014
Asked by ncmv505
Ubuntu 12.04.5
I previously had connectivity on this server, but now I can’t ping hostnames. I can ping IPs. I’m no Linux expert so I don’t know how much of this is relevant, but I’ve noticed the following:
a) /etc/resolv.conf is empty.
b) The networking service has a “stop/waiting” status, but network-manager is running.
c) I noticed the problem since creating a Snapshot. This involved shutting down the server. Perhaps the restart caused an issue?
Any help is much appreciated!
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Without doing anything, it is now working and /etc/resolv.conf is being populated.
I wish D.O. would explain to me what happened here (I did contact their support and I assume they fixed whatever the issue was). Unless I understand the problem I have no way of preventing it from happening again.
Try restarting the networking service:
If that doesn’t fix it and
/etc/resolv.confis still empty, you can edit it manually. Set its contents to: