- ----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Crisman [mailto:nxarmada@gmail.com]
Sent: 12 January 2007 14:45
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Emerge Net Connect Error
 > I do a ping distfiles.gentoo.org
 > ping: unknown host distfiles.gentoo.org
 > 
 > Than i try and ping its ip and i get
 > connect: network is unreachable 
 > 
 > Pinging www.Google.com:
 > connect: network is unreachable
 > 
 > contents of resolv.conf
 > domain localdomain
 > nameserver 192.168.1.1
 > nameserver 192.168.1.1
 > 
 > But as i said before I am able to browser the web in Firefox.
 
Try my suggestion. Manually specify nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf. I have had the same problem before. Web browsers and the like work happily but console based programs do not.

David 
Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list.