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How to configure a wireless ethernet bridge without a wired network
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Can ping ip addresses, but not names?

I had a linux machine configured with a static 192.* ip address. When I tried pinging ip addresses outside my network (ie on the internet) it was fine, but when I tried pinging the same ip, but using it's DNS name, it failed. The answer was to add the ip address of my router to /etc/resolv.conf:

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