[Hoary] Weird Networking Problems

[ulrich steffens]

On Di, 2005-03-15 at 14:17 -0500, David M. Carney wrote:
> I am running an up to date Hoary box.
> 
> I suddenly cannot connect to a couple of web sites, like the one for my
> church.
> 
> Also, the weather applet (for the Gnome panel) has suddenly quit
> working. I have tried several different locations, none work. I can
> connect to Weather.com with Firefox.
> 
> The funny thing is if I boot into WinXP on the same machine, then I can
> connect perfectly to my church's website. They are not blocking my IP
> address in any way. I asked.
> 
> I told Firestarter (my firewall tool) to let all traffic through. Didn't
> make any difference.
> 
> I did an ifconfig and got:
> 
> david at n1zhe:~$ ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:BD:06:7E:1E
>           inet addr:65.175.249.36  Bcast:65.175.249.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::230:bdff:fe06:7e1e/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:60614 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:28841 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:78899346 (75.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1846826 (1.7 MiB)
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd400
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:7325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:7325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:2187374 (2.0 MiB)  TX bytes:2187374 (2.0 MiB)
> 
> david at n1zhe:~$
> 
> However, when I look at the gui network tool, it looks like I don't have
> an IP address assigned.
> 
> DNS server IP's are the same between WinXP and Hoary, but the IP address
> is different.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
hi david,
sorry no answer to your problem, but i see the same behaviour on a box i
installed hoary two days ago. before hoary, the box ran gentoo and the
box connected to the router fine, got an ip and there you go.
after switching to hoary, dns is completely gone mad.
this means in detail that every site that dosent work gets assignd to a
certain ip. try a 'ping' or 'nslookup' in a terminal on the sites that
dont work. do they get assigned to the same ip?
on my box every site that wont work gets assigned to (79.202.101.103) or
somethging like this. 
while i could connect to google and ubuntulinux.org, archive.ubuntu.com
and many others where assigned to the same ip that definetly is wrong.

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- ulrich
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