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Hello, chili555.

Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate your persistence and diligence.

I've gone and looked at that launchpad link a number of times over the past couple of days. I've...

Hi, chili555!

That's certainly consistent with what we're doing here. However, please tell me about this:
PPP adapter Broadband Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . ....

Hi, chili555.

More from me... I haven't been around a Windows environment for a good five or six years, so it's taking me time to figure out stuff....

Anyway, I ran "ipconfig /all"

Results...

Hi, chili555!

What does the rest of your setup look like? He dead connects by wire to the router and then what does the router connect to?

It's a broadband/dsl system, I connect to the router,...

Hello, chili555!

Here is today's state of play:


jem@gromit:~$ tracepath 8.8.8.8
1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500

1: no reply

traceroute 8.8.8.8

jem@gromit:~$ traceroute 8.8.8.8
The program 'traceroute' can be found in the following packages:
* inetutils-traceroute
* traceroute
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected...

Hi, chili555!

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

Changed to:

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Hi, chili555.

I ran:
sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf


Gedit” # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES...

Hello, chili555. Here we are...

jem@gromit:~$ sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
[sudo] password for jem:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver...

Many thanks to you for your persistence. It's past the midnight hour here: Monday, almost one am. I'll run that stuff sometime after daybreak and then post the results.

Again, thank you.

Again, thanks for all your help.

Here we are, chili555:

jem@gromit:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 gromit

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts...

I've searched " Host name lookup failure" on this board and elsewhere. None of the results suggest to me a solution, perhaps I am missing something.

~$ tracepath google.com.hk
gethostbyname2: Host name lookup failure

For good measure, here is tracepath to my isp:

~$ tracepath netvigator.com
gethostbyname2: Host name lookup failure

Please check other devices on the same network. What DNS nameservers do they get from the router?

Not sure I understand the question.

What I can tell you is that on this borrowed Lenovo Windows...

Hi, chili555!

~$ lsmod | grep alx
alx 36864 0
mdio 16384 1 alx

~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr dc:0e:a1:f4:39:13
inet...

Screen shot of "Connection Information".
Please note absence of any info for "Driver"268873

I decided to retrace my steps, even though it's late here (I'm on a little island in the South China Sea)...

~$ cd ~/Desktop
~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i dnsmasq*.deb
[sudo] password for XX: ...

Downloaded:
dnsmasq-base_2.68-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb

Transferred it to Mr Ethernet... pasted to desktop.
Then to terminal, input: $ cd~/Desktop
Result: bash: cd~/Desktop: No such file or...

OK! Thanks. Will do.

~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall dnsmasq-base
[sudo] password for XX:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of...

OK!
Again, thanks for your help.

Desperate times call for desperate measures...


~$ sudo apt-get-install --reinstall dnsmasq-base
[sudo] password for XX:
sudo: apt-get-install: command not found


~$ sudo service...

My working broadband connection is on a Windows machine so am unable, as far as I know, I am unable to "sudo" anything.

In the interim, I followed your suggestion and changed to "Automatic (DHCP)...

~$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile,ofono
dns=dnsmasq

no-auto-default=DC:0E:A1:F4:39:13,

[ifupdown]
managed=false

whoops! need to post
cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf