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So this morning I discover my website payment forms where breaking and on further investigation I discovered that it would appear that my server (Ubuntu 14.4) is unable to connect to the outside world, namely:

Running from CLI:

$php composer.phar self-update

[Composer\Downloader\TransportException]
The "https://getcomposer.org/version" file could not be downloaded: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

or a dig:

$ dig www.google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.1-Ubuntu <<>> www.google.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Apache:

exception 'ErrorException' with message 'stream_socket_client(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known'

Similar posts on stack: here would suggest I change name servers...

So I am thinking that I should set up the server to use googles name servers: nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4

How is this done on Ubuntu 14.4 ?

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  • Although it's off-topic: `sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf` then add name servers, one per line: `nameserver 8.8.8.8`, `nameserver 8.8.4.4` – revo Nov 05 '15 at 08:49
  • Thanks for the effort, that has been set. The problem it turns out is that the IP range is under a DDOS attack and the DataCenter has mitigated the traffic to that IP range... hence why we are unable to view the outside world... – HappyCoder Nov 05 '15 at 10:47

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