I am having an error with name resolution that I am not able to figure out.The system is able to resolve names, say, www.google.com when using a graphical browser like chrome or firefox. But on the command line it is not able to (unless I add the domain in /etc/hosts). This extends to all operations on the command line like ping and others. We have a proxy in this environment and the proxy information is set using environment variables.ETA:I noticed that it does seem to resolve IP addresses but it is still not able to reach them. This makes it even more perplexing. farhat@farhat:~$ traceroute www.google.comtraceroute to www.google.com (209.85.153.104), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1  192.168.4.1 (192.168.4.1)  0.496 ms  1.033 ms  1.294 ms 2  210.212.187.65 (210.212.187.65)  0.872 ms  0.942 ms  0.930 ms 3  * * * 4  * * * 5  * * * 6  * * * 7  * * *farhat@farhat:~$ ping www.google.comPING www.l.google.com (209.85.153.104) 56(84) bytes of data.^C--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---100 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 99131mspinging www.google.com fails.
Name resolution issues in Ubuntu 10.04
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