ethald wrote an interesting post today onArch Linux « Ethald's Weblog
Here’s a quick excerpt
I changed that, and uncommented the gateway part, and tried to ping my router. This time I found that I could, but I could not ping anything without an IP address, I could ping google’s IP, but http://www.google.com wouldn’t resolve to … Finally, I could install packages and ping websites using their domain names. I only had one remaining problem, downloading packages took forever, averaging about 50 Kbps, and I have a T1 connection. I checked the excellent Arch Linux …
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