only one ping from router

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 19 June 2013 13:57, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Josh Stratton
>> <strattonbrazil at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The internet on my desktop suddenly stopped working while watching a video.
>>> I don't think anything has changed recently as far as configuration goes.
>>> It seems like the eth0 interface is getting an IP address from my router,
>>> but I can only ping myself. dns names don't resolve like if I ping
>>> yahoo.com. If I ping the router at 192.168.0.1, I seem to only get one
>>> response back before it hangs and times out. I've been trying to debug this
>>> myself, but I'm unfamiliar with what files are used for what now.
>
> I find it difficult to understand how errors such as the missing
> resolv.conf and the missing routes could suddenly appear in the middle
> of watching a video.  Possibly the fact that the OP has not responded
> means that he realised that he was doing something silly.

Initially, I thought that he was a troll but I was in a compassionate
mood so I just answered! :)