Ubuntu 12.04 Server - No network connection even though web server fully works.

[L1mit30]

Hello all,

I am very troubled and I am unable to figure out why my server is unable to connect to the Internet even though my Bind9 and Apache are up and running without any issues. When I try to ping google.com I get the "unknown host google.com" error but when I ping my FQDN which is sammojohn.com it responds without any errors.
I will attach some of my conf files and hopefully you guys can locate a mistake, which I can't.
Before, I need to clarify that the server is using DHCP and my router has assigned a static IP to it. It's an AT&T router and it doesn't like it when a machine is using static.

/etc/networking/interfaces

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

/etc/hosts/ (igemonas is my hostname)

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain          localhost
108.92.196.86   igemonas.sammojohn.com     igemonas

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Any ideas trust me will help and I appreciate anyone taking the time into helping me out.
Please let me know if you need anything more.

Thanks and best regards,
Sam

[steeldriver]

can you ping remote hosts by IP?

how is the box getting name services - what does /etc/resolv.conf say? you either need a dns-nameservers line in your interfaces file or a working resolvconf I think

[L1mit30]

Yes I can ping to remote hosts by IP. For instance from my desktop I pinged google.com and I saw the IP was 173.194.46.14 so from my server I pinged that IP and below is the result

root@igemonas:/etc/bind# ping 173.194.46.14
PING 173.194.46.14 (173.194.46.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 173.194.46.14: icmp_req=1 ttl=52 time=26.8 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.46.14: icmp_req=2 ttl=52 time=27.1 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.46.14: icmp_req=3 ttl=52 time=31.2 ms
^C
--- 173.194.46.14 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.838/28.401/31.252/2.019 ms

and my resolv.conf file is as follows

# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.0.1
search gateway.2wire.net

I have noticed too that I am getting some weird errors due to RNDC which I just noticed, and I am not sure if that is causing the error

root@igemonas:/etc/bind# service bind9 restart
 * Stopping domain name service... bind9                                                                                                                       WARNING: key file (/etc/bind/rndc.key) exists, but using default configuration file (/etc/bind/rndc.conf)
rndc: no server specified and no default
waiting for pid 2903 to die
                                                                                                                                                        [ OK ]
 * Starting domain name service... bind9

[steeldriver]

sorry - I don't know anything about bind

[L1mit30]

sorry - I don't know anything about bind

No worries at all man. I do appreciate you even taking the time to look into it.

I am still working around it see what I can figure out. When I do, I will post the fix.

[steeldriver]

maybe this bug? it seems sometimes bind9 doesn't play well with resolvconf

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...d9/+bug/933723