Cool, no worries. I think the best way to troubleshoot this is to: Code: nslookup google.com It should say something about using 127.0.0.1 and return an IP address. If not, put into /etc/resolv.conf Code: nameserver 4.2.2.1 And try again. Code: nslookup google.com It should resolve then there is definitely a dns look up issue with your resolv files. What could be unique to each, depending on what files you edited by hand and what files were edited by apps from extra etc..
nslookup google.com
nameserver 4.2.2.1