Internet is dying

[Volker Wysk]

Am Samstag, 21. Oktober 2017, 13:45:35 CEST schrieb Colin Law:
> On 21 October 2017 at 13:29, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > My internet connection has become fickle. It happens that  there suddenly
> > is no more internet connection at all. When I "ping" some site, then
> > there is no output at all. KDE say that the IP of my machine can't be
> > acquired.

> Does that error appear in the terminal? What is the exact error, it
> sounds a bit odd that it is the ip of your machine that cannot be
> acquired, I would have expected it to be the destination machine,
> suggesting a DNS problem as Xen has suggested.

It happened again: In KDE (system tray), I close the network connection, and 
reopen it again. Then the message  "Netzwerkadresse wird bezogen" (network 
address is being acquired) appears. Then it says "Die IP-Konfiguration ist 
nicht verfügbar" (The IP configuration isn't available).

Bye
V.W.