New Unmanaged VDS

[barhund]

Ok... i've been bashing my skull against this thing for the better part of 2 hours trying to figure out why none of the simple commands like apt-get update are working... Basically the VDS won't resolve us.archive.ubuntu.com...

If I run "sudo apt-get update" it spits out unable to resolve host 'wompvds' ... then proceeds to error out and not resolve us.archive.ubuntu.com

[soja]

The error "cannot resolve wompvds" is shown when running commands as root and shows because you do not have your hostname setup properly.

Type this in your command line as root:

hostname vds1.mysite.com

vds1 can be anything you want.

Then make an "A" record on your website pointing to your VDS's primary IP.

As for domain names not resolving, have you edited your interfaces or resolv.conf files?

[barhund]

I have yet to edit anything i tried setting the route command but it said... network unreachable.

[soja]

what is the output if you do this in your command line:

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ping google.com

[barhund]

ping: unknown host google.com

[soja]

edit your /etc/network/interfaces file and make sure it looks something like this:

[barhund]

I'm new to the whole editing files via command line...

[barhund]

got the nano open just looking for the extension to the network/interfaces file

[barhund]

its been edited...

[barhund]

i can ping google!!!!

[barhund]

I updated the etc/resolv.conf file too and that gave me interweb access yaaaay!! ty soja

[soja]

Great, glad you got it sorted! I got a little distracted, but you figured it out

If you need anything else please ask!