cant ping external website

[Mark Haney]

Donny George wrote:
> 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
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>>>>
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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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> 
> 
> 
> 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

Changing the port settings on Firefox?  Like a proxy server port?

> 
> 
> 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
> 
The broadcast mask you have listed in this output is wrong.  It should 
be 10.4.139.255.  Fix that.



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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415

Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support