no internet but lan works fine [solved]

[smellyfis]

hello, i am having a problem with connecting to the internet from my other computer.
the symptoms are as follows:
firefox error's non lan pages as server not found pidgin fails to connect
so i thought something was wrong with eth0 and eth1 so i tried my samba share which is binded to eth0 and it worked fine and i tried my apache server which is binded to eth1.
if i change the /etc/conf.d/net to use dhcp i get the error "eth0: socket: address family not supported by protocol" and then /net.eth0 doesn't load at all
my ifconfig shows up the same as it has always.
i get the internet fine on two windows machines and one running fedora

things i have done
i thought it was the router so i reset it back to defaults
also i discovered the problem with vpnc so i unmerged it and then re emerged it.

it was just random i had rebooted since my last emerge world
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[poly_poly-man]

Try pinging 64.233.187.99 from the machine in question.

It's probably just DNS not working properly if everyone else on the network can do it.

Are you using DHCP?

poly-p man
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[smellyfis]

The ping worked to 64.233.187.99

no i am not using dhcp i am using static ip

after pinging i entered the ip and it went to the google website so i think you are right in it being a dns problem i will search for that in the forums if there are any suggestions i will be greatful

[edit] i remerged avahi and no difference and i can't seem to find the right things in the forums
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[smellyfis]

I fixed it yay! i added dns_servers_eth0 to /etc/conf.d/net
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