Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:49:29
Message-Id: 461775EF.3060009@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection... by Coder TuX
1 Coder TuX wrote:
2 > Hello! My name is Andrei. I'm having this weird issue since last
3 > night. I went out for a couple of hours, leaving my computer on. When
4 > I got home I noticed I had been disconnected from all my IM accounts,
5 > ktorrent was stalled, everything was frozen, i couldn't even load a
6 > website.
7 > I tried restarting the net.eth1 script - nothing. DHCP was working
8 > fine, but I still couldn't do any traffic. Today I called my ISP and
9 > they sent a guy to check out the problem... He said the internet
10 > connection is working fine on his laptop (running windows xp). I tried
11 > booting into windows... and I couldn't believe my eyes... it was
12 > working :| How could this be possible? I've done some more digging in
13 > gentoo, this is what i've got...
14 >
15 > DHCP - working fine, i've got the same settings as ever (it's a static
16 > configuration through DHCP)
17 > Pinging the gateway/dns server - works fine.
18 > Pinging google.com <http://google.com>: it can't resolve google.com
19 > <http://google.com>
20 >
21 > Anyone have any ideas about what I can do to fix this? I can't spend
22 > this Easter in windows :|
23
24 Check /etc/resolv.conf to see if there is a nameserver entry in it. If
25 not, maybe something is wrong with your script that starts your network.
26
27 May also want to try pinging 216.239.37.99 which is the IP address for
28 one of many google servers.
29
30 Hope that helps get you started any way. Post back what happens.
31
32 Dale
33
34 :-) :-) :-)
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37 www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967
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39 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.