F14: can ping but cannot browse the web

[kramer99]

Thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to try and help me out with this, it's appreciated.

I've just done a clean install of F14. I have a wired ethernet connection (no wifi). Initially, I was able to browse the web with Konqueror... but after doing a big package update, and installing Firefox, I can no longer browse any website (Unknown host errors).

The strange thing about this is that I can ping successfully via hostname (ie: ping www.google.com returns in ~20ms)

Any help/advice is appreciated.

[stoat]

Sometimes, toggling the Firefox configuration property network.dns.disableIPv6 to "true" helps. It's an easy and reversible thing to try anyway. You can find it by entering about:config in the Firefox URL navigation box. Scroll down to it and right-click it to toggle.

[kramer99]

Thankyou muchly - that worked!