Hate to give up

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/6/2 John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net>:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 06/01/2009 12:50 PM, John Heinen wrote:
>>
>>> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2009/6/1 John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> NoOp wrote:
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>>>>>> Answer the other questions in the thread, otherwise you are simply
>>>>>> continuing wasting people's time John.
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>>>>> Sorry, it seems to me that I did. ......the second suggestion........
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm blind but I can't see anywhere an answer to this question,
>>>> for example:
>>>>
>>>> What happens if you type the following in a terminal?
>>>> ping yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>> Johnny Rosenberg
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>>> unknown host yahoo.com
>>>
>>>
>>
>> >From Dotan in this thread:
>> ====
>> Post the output of this command:
>> $ ping 74.125.67.100
>>
>> This will check your (and google's) internet connection, without
>> regard to DNS or Firefox.
>> ====
>>
>> Also:
>> $ ping 209.85.171.100
>>
>> Both are google.com hosts.
>>
>>
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>>
> $ ping 74.125.57.100
> 64 bytes from 74.125.67.100 56(84)bytes of data
> 64 bytes from 74.125.57 100 1cmp seq 1 ttl=51 time 180 ms
> and so on and on
>
> $ping 209.85.171.100
> 64 bytes from 209.85.171.100 1cmp seq =1 ttl=24 time =199ms and so on and on
>
> it seems to me that the internet connection with my provider is working
> just fine and that the problem lies with firefox. John

To me it seems like a DNS problem, but I'm no expert. ping google.com
didn't work, but ping 209.85.171.100 didn't.

Johnny Rosenberg