Fedora Core 4 Networking: Ping DNS problem

I have recently installed Fedora Core 4 and ran across a network issue.
I use PuTTY to access the FC4 box, and that works fine. I can ping any
internal ip address(behind the router) but can not access DNS servers.
Cannot ping them or anything. When i try to ping an outside ip i
recieve the following error: connect: Network is unreachable. Host name
cannot be found is the error for ping'ing google. I tried a static ip
address and then went back to dhcp and the problem didn't resolve. The
output of ifconfig is :

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:CC:67:B9
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::203:47ff:fecc:67b9/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5010 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:535593 (523.0 KiB) TX bytes:581144 (567.5 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8965 (8.7 KiB) TX bytes:8965 (8.7 KiB)
I am unsure of how to resolve this issue, since i cannot fully get my
FC4 box up and running until i get the network issue resolved. Any help
you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

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> I have recently installed Fedora Core 4 and ran across a network issue.
> I use PuTTY to access the FC4 box, and that works fine. I can ping any
> internal ip address(behind the router) but can not access DNS servers.
> Cannot ping them or anything. When i try to ping an outside ip i
> recieve the following error: connect: Network is unreachable. Host name
> cannot be found is the error for ping'ing google. I tried a static ip
> address and then went back to dhcp and the problem didn't resolve.

It looks as if you are missing a default gateway in your kernel routing
table. If you get your IP address from DHCP, your server normally
provides your gateway address and your DNS server IP address(es) (which
are normally the IP address of your router) which your system will put
into the right place; but if you choose a static IP address you have to
configure them yourself (no doubt there is a Fedora applet to help you).
If you have no luck, post your output from:

netstat -r

and the contents of your file: /etc/resolv.conf (for your DNS)

Robert

> [snip]

Ok, i resolved the problem by setting the default gateway in the
network interfaces files. But would this have anything to do with not
being able to access apache from outside the network with correctly
forwarded ports? Connection refused is the error i get, yet while
inside the network i get the welcome page for apache.