Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

[Coder TuX]

On 4/7/07, Tony Stohne <tstohne@××××××××.net> wrote:
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> Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 14:46:
> | resolv.conf is -rw-r--r-- so that's not the issue..
> |
> | I noticed that ping works for about every ip i've tried, but TCP
> | connexions don't. why could that happen? I can browse my local webserver
> | however...
> |
> I'm not entirely clear on this, so just for clarification:
> Have You just pinged IP addresses or IPs AND domain names as well?
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> You pinged the address 216.239.37.99, but does it work when you ping the
> corresponding domain name, ie va-in-f99.google.com, or any other domain
> name?
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Pinging the IP address works, pinging the corresponding domain name doesn't.


If not it is clearly a problem with DNS not resolving properly, so check
> your network configuration (/etc/conf.d/net.eth0 or whatever your file
> is called)! Also read the example file in the same directory - it's full
> of valuable info on how to set up your network config.


Those configs are ok. It's all managed by dhcp.

(If DNS resolution does work, it could also be a mockup with your
> firewall rules. Maybe outgoing TCP is rejected or dropped, for some
> reason. In all fairness, this shouldn't be happening unless you have
> changed any rules. It's a more of an extreme possibility.)


I'll check the firewall rules, maybe there's something wrong there, but I
think I tried with iptables disabled and got the same result....

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