DNS resolving to 1.0.0.0

// November 27th, 2009 // guides, tech

I’ve had the most peculiar thing happened today at home. I think it’s Karmic issue since I never had this problem before.

Well what happened was, I was unable to browse the internet (Firefox and Chrome both had problems but Opera worked fine). Pinging worked. Other Windows machines didn’t have problems at all. Sudo apt-get update didn’t worked because it was looking up 1.0.0.0 for every mirrors I tried. I tried this with Firefox at first:

In address bar, type in about:config, filter for ipv6. There should be only 1 listed – network.dns.disableIPv6. Double click to change the value to true. Problems solved for Firefox.

I continued googling around and did this:

#in /etc/resolv.conf, changed nameserver to those of streamyx
#previously it was 192.168.1.1 which points to my router
#Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 202.188.0.133

And now everything works again. Only that if I reboot it will change back to 192.168.1.1

3 Responses to “DNS resolving to 1.0.0.0”

  1. msian_tux_lover says:
    Fri, November 27, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    You may need to change the /etc/sysconfig/network entries. I woud prefer to use the OpenDNS IPs, 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

  2. Kedai says:
    Fri, November 27, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    All dsl modems can be configured to get nameservers. Check yr modem manual?

  3. sharuzzaman says:
    Mon, November 30, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    Something is wrong with your DSL modem/router. Check which DNS server it points to when you are connected. Depending on make/model, you can force the IP address of the DNS server in the DSL modem/router

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