flaky residential router

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 23:43 +0000, Thufir Hawat wrote:

> It's more an oddity.  I can't see how or why I should be able to ping the 
> router, but not the internet and *yet* the "internet" is working for 
> other devices.  Finally, why would rebooting the computer fix the 
> connectivity in a way bringing the interfaces down and then up doesn't?
> 
> Hope that helped to explain it, and I didn't just muddy the waters!

What does your /etc/resolv.conf file contain? If it's empty, therein may
lie the problem. Ric


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