cant ping external website

[Donny George]

hello



i can ping the nameserver and also the gateway


with telnet 132.230.200.200 it doesnt return any result

with host www.web.de i get the IP address of web.de

but i cant use traceroute as its not installed

and i cant install as apt-get is not working yet



don


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Donny George wrote:
> >
> >> the file resolve.conf
> >> nameserver 132.230.200.200
> >> nameserver 132.230.200.200
> >>
> >> i am able to ping the nameserver ip succesfully
> >>
> >> but when i ping 217.72.195.42 its kind of still and then later shows
> >> unknown host
> > ...
> >> iface eth0 inet static
> >> address 10.4.139.3
> >> netmask 255.255.255.0
> >> network 10.4.139.0
> >> broadcast 10.4.139.255
> >> gateway 10.4.139.254
> >> # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
> >> dns-nameservers 132.230.200.200
> >
> > The usual cause of this sort of problem is not knowing exactly what you
> need
> > to specify for a static IP.  Addresses in the 10.*.*.* range are
> generally
> > NOT static, so why aren't you getting it via DHCP?
> >
> > What is the result of "route -n"?
>
> Okay, let's go back over what needs to be tested.  I'll try to get them
> in order and lets see where you are with this, okay?
>
> 1.  Ping the gateway?
> 2.  Ping the DNS server.
>        (I just tested that NS and it doesn't do recursion, so that's
> possibly
> your problem.)
> 3.  Ping outside IP address.  (I almost always use 4.2.2.2 for that,
> it's a NS, but it works)
>
>
> What are the results of those tests.  Just so we can keep up with things.
>
> It's possible, but not likely it's something silly like a duplex
> mismatch between your NIC and the switch/router it's connected to as
> well.  I've seen that a lot.
>
>
>
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