[NeverMind] Pacman Can't Resolve Domain Names, Yet Internet Works Fine

I've had my Arch box off for over a month due to getting my motherboard replaced. I finally got the board in yesterday and got everything hooked up, then went to go upgrade my system but pacman says that it can't resolve any addresses, yet I can browse the web and ping the repos just fine. What am I missing here?
[bran@ra ~]$ sudo pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from mirror.us.leaseweb.net : Resolving timed out after 10519 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from mirror.nl.leaseweb.net : Resolving timed out after 10519 milliseconds
[bran@ra ~]$ ping mirror.us.leaseweb.net
PING mirror.us.leaseweb.net (108.59.10.97) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mirror.us.leaseweb.net (108.59.10.97): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=32.6 ms
64 bytes from mirror.us.leaseweb.net (108.59.10.97): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=33.7 ms
64 bytes from mirror.us.leaseweb.net (108.59.10.97): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=32.0 ms
I can even go to the site and browse through the repo so everything is obviously up. I just put the IP of the US mirror in my mirrorlist and it works fine so something is definitely up with pacman and DNS.
Last edited by brando56894 (2014-02-07 02:40:58)

I switched from my Linksys E3000 to a WRT54G2 since I bricked the E3000 trying to upgrade Tomato, it may be salvageable. The 54G2 didn't have any DNS addresses set but I added in Google's and it may have worked, I forget since I did a 30/30/30 wipe on it and had my pc directly connected to the cable modem.

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