Work this lab on a router that has some kind of connectivity to the Internet. Make sure it can ping a public IP address, like 8.8.8.8, which is a Google DNS server. Configure this as a name server:
ip name-server 8.8.8.8
Then try to resolve public website names, for example, by pinging www.cisco.com.
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