cant ping external website

[Donny George]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> Donny George wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
>
>
> Please, don't top post.  Try 'telnet 132.230.200.200 53' and see what
> happens.  If you get a 'connected' line, then we know network
> connectivity is good to the internet.
>
> But it also means that the DNS settings are wrong.  I tested that
> nameserver and it does not do recursion.  This means if it's not on the
> local system, it won't resolve it.  That might be your problem.  Try
> using a different set to DNS servers.
>
>
>
>
>
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hello mark and derek


sorry for top posting

i also replied to your questions though it was as top post and a bit slow

so the result of telnet 132.230.200.200 is that is displays

Trying 132.230.200.200...

don
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