cant ping external website

[Donny George]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> Donny George wrote:
> > 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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> >>
> >>
> >> Mark Haney
> >> Sr. Systems Administrator
> >> ERC Broadband
> >> (828) 350-2415
> >>
> >> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
> >>
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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
> >
> >
>
> Okay, let's go a little slower.  Try 'telnet 132.230.200.200 53' exactly
> like that without the quotes.  That will let you telnet to port 53 of
> the DNS server.  Port 53 is the DNS port so you SHOULD get connected to it.
>
> Also, give us the out put of ifconfig on the system that is NOT working
> and one that IS working with the 10.x.x.x IP addresses.
>
>
>
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>
>
> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
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>
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>
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hello

admin at cadcli01:~$ telnet 132.230.200.200 53
Trying 132.230.200.200...
Connected to 132.230.200.200.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.



on all the systems here i cant ping websites from the text mode. but i have
got the internet connectivity by setting the port on the settings of the
mozilla firefox browser. sorry for the confusion earlier


ifconfig


eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1f:29:36:e0:bd
          inet addr:10.4.139.4  Bcast:132.230.139.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21f:29ff:fe36:e0bd/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:44217 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24458 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:28556861 (27.2 MB)  TX bytes:5518305 (5.2 MB)
          Interrupt:19

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:2544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:127768 (124.7 KB)  TX bytes:127768 (124.7 KB)

don
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