Very odd partial networking issue with Ubuntu 8.10 guest OS

[ccuser]

I've got an Ubuntu 8.10 server running with the Enhanced vmxnet nic.

The VMware tools are installed and am able to ping internal and external IPs (it's got a NAT), however.....I cannot resolve IPs at all.

The DNS server I'm using is working - have proven that. I've even tried changing to the google public dns server (8.8.8.8) which I can ping fine but they won't work either.

I have Apache and Sshd running - I can get to the ports but Apache won't serve pages and ssh won't prompt me for a login.

I've removed the original nic and added a new one - redone the static config for the new nic and get exactly the same. I've even recompiled and re-installed the VMware tools but no joy. Am running out of ideas now....

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can try next please as I'm running out of ideas....?

[Yosias]

Maybe it is dns cache?

Flush DNS Cache in Ubuntu Using the following command

sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart

how does your /etc/hosts file look like....

[ccuser]

ncsd isn't installed.

hosts looks like:

127.0.0.1 localhost

10.x.x.1 servername.domain.tld servername

#194.169.254.10 gb.archive.ubuntu.com

#91.189.88.37 security.ubuntu.com

::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

fe00::0 ip6-localnet

ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix

ff02::1 ip6-allnodes

ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

I'd added the ubuntu references earlier to test if it was name resolution but then trying apt-get update it wouldn't pull down the headers....

[ccuser]

Have sorted this now - kind of.

Ended up rolling the server back to a backup before the issue occured.