Unable to Update, Transient resolver failure

Hi All,
I am new to Arch, though not that new to Linux:)
I have installed arch succcessfully .
But i  get a bunch of Transient resolver errors  when i try to  pacman -Syy.
the out put looks like this:
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from  archlinux.mirrors.uk2.net : Transient resolver failure.
This gets repeated for extra and  community and for all these repos the errors keep repeating for all the mirrors i have updated in the pacman.d/mirrorlist
The final errror is  failed to synchronize any databases
1) Trying to update pacman says that it is uptodate.
2) etc/hosts is correct  . i can ping local host. and my hostname.
3) networking is fine as long as i can ping with IP address and my other computers  are able access the net. so  i am not sure where i am wrong.
4)my etc/rc.conf  shows  the following
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
eth0="eth0 10.0.3.9 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.3.255"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="default gw 10.0.3.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)
also please note that i am using the latest ISO
i have already followed the following threads in this forum
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47066
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43152
but my situation is not resolved.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

supposed to be a space in the second nameserver (2. 45)????
Sorry my bad.. no it is not supposed to be.
Can u ping an IP address??? See if u can bypass the DNS part and make a difference. Can u ping a local networked computer?
Yes i can ping my gateway and DNS in  internal network
1) You are wanting a fixed IP?  You have it set up that way but thought I'd check...
2) Does someone have to approve individual computer network access at your office? I have had that at several places of work.
Yes i cant have a DHCP
Yes they need to. But it is already approved. In fact this is a dual boot machine. i have FreeBSD 6.3 running on this machine and it can happily access all the websites.
Can you dig google.com?
i Cant . dig gives command not found is dig not installed in the base installation? ( i guess not ,by this)
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