Trying to access google.com or youtube.com in ANY browser (FF, chrome, ephiphany, w3m) does not work ("could not find www.google.com"). I can ping both services with no problem. Are there DNS problems again?
3 Answers
If you ping by domain name and it is successful it is not DNS.
Try to wget the front page of google com:
wget http://google.com/
If you are able to successfully download the index.html page, you may have a browser issue.
Try to check the following:
- Proxy settings
- AD blocker settings (if any), or disable AD blocking
(Remark: corporate policies used to block entertainment sites during business hours...)
Have you tried restarting network manager? Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command below.
sudo service network-manager restart