cant ping external website

[Rashkae]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> 
>> NoOp wrote:
>>
>>>> Well for starters never use 127.0.x.x for /anything/ other than the
>>>> loopback.  That's a bad idea.
>>> isn't helpful. Particularly when Ubuntu uses 127.0.1.1 at installation
>>> default.
>>>
>> Okay, taken out of context, it probably isn't helpful.  Point taken.
>>
>>> In _Ubuntu_ removing and/or misconfiguring 127.0.1.1 can cause startup
>>> delays and a multitude of other issues (including breaking
>>> update-manager, gksu, password authentication etc - search launchpad etc
>>> for details).
>> However, that fact that Ubuntu does something like that, that no other
>> OS (and unless I see a default Debian install do that, I'm not buying
>> it.) seems to do, then I think it's a misconfiguration.  In fact, at
>> lunch I pulled that line from my Mother's Hardy and rebooted it and it
>> came up just like it should.
> 
> Now try: "sudo anything"
> 
> (actually, it works, but it keeps sending annoying security emails about the
> host not being found)
> 
>> There's certainly no point in having a
>> /second/ loopback IP when the hostname can quite comfrotably sit on the
>> same line as 127.0.0.1 without any trouble at all.
> 
> Yes, that's true.

Ah, but that's the Million dollar point of all this.  Putting the
hostname on 127.0.0.1 *was* causing trouble with some obscure networking
fqdn lookup stuff.

It was therefore decreed from henceforth that 127.0.0.1 would be
localhost and only localhost, voila, problem solved.