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Earlier today I was ssh'ing into my box and discovered that the internal IP had changed from what it was, I decided I wanted to make this static and found a tutorial (kind of) how to:

nano /etc/network/interfaces

And then changed the contents to this:

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
   address 192.168.0.11
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   gateway 192.168.0.200

(I wanted my IP to be static at this). Now whenever I try to update, or install "git" using:

sudo apt-get update

I keep getting the error like so:

Err http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy InRelease                                   

Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy InRelease                               

Err http://archive.raspberrypi.org wheezy Release.gpg                                 
Temporary failure resolving 'archive.raspberrypi.org'
Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org wheezy Release.gpg                             
Temporary failure resolving 'mirrordirector.raspbian.org'
Reading package lists... Done                 
W: Failed to fetch      
http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/dists/wheezy/InRelease  
W: Failed to fetch 
http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/wheezy/InRelease  

W: Failed to fetch   
http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg  Temporary 
failure resolving 'archive.raspberrypi.org'

W: Failed to fetch 
http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/dists/wheezy/Release.gpg  
Temporary failure resolving 'mirrordirector.raspbian.org'

I am connected to the internet, and this only seems to be happening since I updated the particular file.

Hope someone can help

UPDATE:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.200   0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0


eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:87:59:47  
          inet addr:192.168.0.11  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4707 errors:0 dropped:50 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3488 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:334663 (326.8 KiB)  TX bytes:390376 (381.2 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:708 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:708 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:67655 (66.0 KiB)  TX bytes:67655 (66.0 KiB)
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Can you post output of netstat -rn and ifconfig -a? – Karlson Jan 18 at 18:57
@Karlson Thank you for the reply. I have updated my o/p to what you asked for – Phorce Jan 18 at 19:01
You'd be better off just configuring your router to always allocate the same IP to this machine. – ire_and_curses Jan 18 at 19:02

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Assuming that your IP and gateway are properly configured, your DNS nameservers are not. They can be configured in /etc/resolv.conf, in the following format:

nameserver 8.8.8.8

Another option is to install the resolvconf package and add the following to /etc/network/interfaces.

dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8

Then restart the interface for the changes to take affect:

ifdown eth0
ifup eth0
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Thanks :) In /etc/resolv.conf I have "nameserver 194.168.4.100" repeated, so shall I replace these with: nameserver 8.8.8.8? – Phorce Jan 18 at 19:05
@phorce that's not the problem if 194.168.4.100 is a valid nameserver. Can you ping it? You can definitely try 8.8.8.8, which is google's resolver. – jordanm Jan 18 at 19:06
I can ping it, yes. Is there any way that I could go back to how it was before? I.e. replace the lines in "/etc/network/interfaces" and then have my router static the IP for this device? Thanks – Phorce Jan 18 at 19:09
Are you sure that 194.168.4.100 is a DNS server? When I did lookup for NS records for this IP I got 4 completely different servers. – Karlson Jan 18 at 21:22
the address 194.168.4.100 you wrote as DNS is probably mean to be 192.168.4.100 instead. It's a private subnet (192.168.4.x) and .100 can be your local router / DNS (as is in some ADSL gateways-router setup). If it's the case, check your router IP. – DavAlPi 2 days ago

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