[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: ADSL problem

[Tristan Wibberley]

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 21:15 +0000, Dave Briggs wrote:
> On 21/12/06, Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org> wrote:
> 
> > I see you've had no answer to this, can you confirm that David Pashley's
> > earlier steps worked as described? You didn't say whether you followed
> > them as suggested:
> >
> > ip route
> > ping <via address from output of ip route>
> > ping 82.211.81.166
> 
> Thanks Tristan.
> 
> ip route produces:
> 
> 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.2
> default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0
> 
> So I tried:
> 
> ping 192.168.1.2 and
> ping 192.168.1.1 which both sent 8 packets and rec'd 8 back in a few seconds.
> 
> Then I did:
> 
> ping 82.211.81.166 and again sent 8 and got 8 back.
> 
> This seems to be working fine?

Could you try "dig <website host>" with <website host> replaced with the
failing site that you're trying to view in the web browser, eg:

$ dig www.slashdot.org

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> www.slashdot.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5170
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.slashdot.org.              IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.slashdot.org.       7200    IN      A       66.35.250.151

;; Query time: 193 msec
;; SERVER: 194.72.0.114#53(194.72.0.114)
;; WHEN: Fri Dec 22 23:06:09 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 50

Here I got that slashdot's IP address is 66.35.250.151

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Tristan Wibberley

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