can't get 5% of internet

Ever since I loaded Debian 3.0 on my machine I have not been able to reach about 5% of the internet. I upgraded to 3.0r1, and still have the problem. Anything I cannot reach with Mozilla, I also cannot reach with Lynx. Example URLs that I cannot reach are: www.lib.ttu.edu www.sonystyle.com www.r

dselect

dselect worked perfectly. Then I attempted to use it, instead of dpkg, to install a *.deb file off my disk. I found my mistake, and sucessfully installed with dpkg -i. However, now dselect hangs on "update", and dselect cannot list any packages not on "binary-1". I would be tempted to use dpkg t