I haven't rebooted yet, but so far this situation is much better with 8..8 and 8..4 dns servers.. From within edit connection. 

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On Jul 19, 2012, at 4:35 AM, Thomas Hood <email address hidden> wrote:

> @joshyg6: Please browse through the hundreds of network-manager bug
> reports for one that looks more like the problem you are having.
> 
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/989900
> 
> Title:
>  Various people have a bunch of unrelated problems with name resolution
>  in Ubuntu 12.04
> 
> Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
> 
> Bug description:
>  I just updated to Ubuntu 12.04. 
>  After the update I cannot resolve hostnames reliably: 
>  I use Konsole in Unity. There sometimes the DNS resolving works fine and suddenly after two commands or so it fails for the same address. 
> 
>  E.g. I ping a machine without DNS-Suffix (the suffix is shown in my network config correctly aside 3 valid nameserver IPs) and everything works fine. Then I try to log into the machine with the same address via ssh and I get a "Name or service not known". 
>  Trying again, it works with a fully qualified name containing the suffix. I also had cases, when the IP wasn't resolved although I put in the fully qualified name. When I am more lucky, it starts working again with machine names only (without suffix, which is configured and worked perfectly up to now)
> 
>  Is there probably a bug in the new Ubuntu Version?
>  --- 
>  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
>  Architecture: amd64
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>  IfupdownConfig:
>   auto lo
>   iface lo inet loopback
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
>  IpRoute:
>   default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0  proto static 
>   169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0  scope link  metric 1000 
>   192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.2  metric 2
>  NetworkManager.state:
>   [main]
>   NetworkingEnabled=true
>   WirelessEnabled=true
>   WWANEnabled=true
>   WimaxEnabled=true
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4
>  PackageArchitecture: amd64
>  ProcEnviron:
>   TERM=xterm
>   PATH=(custom, no user)
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic 3.2.16
>  RfKill:
>   0: phy0: Wireless LAN
>       Soft blocked: no
>       Hard blocked: no
>  Tags:  precise
>  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare sudo
>  mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2012-05-09T05:01:02.241358
>  nmcli-con:
>   NAME                      UUID                                   TYPE              TIMESTAMP    TIMESTAMP-REAL                     AUTOCONNECT   READONLY   DBUS-PATH                                 
>   Wired connection 1        a76f352c-6e8c-49c7-bc05-b890445abb22   802-3-ethernet    1336943434   Sun 13 May 2012 05:10:34 PM EDT    yes           no         /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1
>   Ladner Computer Repair L.N.A 47560d22-54ec-491b-b90f-a41535d69f00   802-11-wireless   1337213171   Wed 16 May 2012 08:06:11 PM EDT    yes           no         /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0
>  nmcli-dev:
>   DEVICE     TYPE              STATE         DBUS-PATH                                  
>   wlan0      802-11-wireless   connected     /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1  
>   eth0       802-3-ethernet    unavailable   /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
>  nmcli-nm:
>   RUNNING         VERSION    STATE           NET-ENABLED   WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE   WWAN      
>   running         0.9.4.0    connected       enabled       enabled         enabled    enabled         disabled
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