No outbound connections from My book live (wget not working)

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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Found the solution from stackexchange. It seems like a DNS server problem. Did the below and it started working.

Add the below line in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4

I also had to change the name servers:

Change /etc/resolv.conf so it points to the google nameservers. 

# RED 2013-03-31
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4