Connection Issues

I am getting similar login issues as those from the past, but since they havent been replied to with an answer, I dont know how to fix the problem. The problem I am pretty much getting and seeing, is a 'Cannot Resolve Host Name' error, and that only shows up when i use terminal to run secondlife. Here is the about information, it has on the system, which will hopefully help me get better help:
" Second Life 1.21.5 (98701) Oct 6 2008 10:39:11 (Second Life Release Candidate)
Release Notes

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Memory: 3960 MB
OS Version: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86_64
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 7300 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 169.12

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.16.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7c zlib/1.2.3.3 c-ares/1.4.0
J2C Decoder Version: KDU
LLMozLib Version: [LLMediaImplLLMozLib] - 2.01.18765 (Mozilla GRE version 1.8.1.13_0000000000) "
And since it is not mentioned by the About information, I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (64-Bit)

I faced the problem a number of times and finally seems to have got round it.The method I followed is as under.I am using vista.
Open network and sharing center > Manage connections
Right click on your connection > Properties > Internet Protocol Version 4 >Properties

Click on "obtain Ip Adds automatically" and "obtain DNS server automatically.

(The problem in my case was that the ISP during their upgradation had changed the DNS server that I had feeded in manually. Surprisingly I was able to visit all other websites but not SL)

Now open all the web brousers that are running in your computer ( IE ,Mozilla etc) and clear cookies,passwords,cache etc

Open SL viewer > web >clear cache
Connections > clear cache.
Close SL viewer

Open Programmes>accessories>right click command prompt
Click Run as administrator
type "ipconfig/flushdns

Restart computer

Connect to net and open sl viewer and I was able to log on.

This is the process with vista.The process is much simpler with XP.

That would probably work if OP was running Windows. But, as this is a Linux forum...

To Live Fall: Is it only the SL viewer that you have connection issues with? And it only happens when run from terminal?

If that's the case, it sounds like something might be wrong with your /etc/hosts file.... Maybe. Or you have some DNS issue.

Hi Live Fall,

Sounds like a DNS issue to me. Some more information about your local network setup could be helpful with diagnosing. Specifically is your machine set up to use DHCP to get it's local IP address?

Does "host secondlife.com" give some thing like this...

mark@spinach:~$ host secondlife.com
secondlife.com has address 8.4.128.240
secondlife.com has address 8.4.128.238
secondlife.com mail is handled by 10 mf.thelix.net.

Take a look at /etc/resolv.conf; if you're behind a router, using DHCP it likely has lines pointing to said router. You can add the following lines to /etc/resolv.conf to use the opendns DNS servers...

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

No restart is required.

hopefully helpful,

-mark

/me looks at the date of the first post.
/me looks at the date of the second post.

Dammit! We've been necro'd! And by a Windows user, no less!