Internet is dying

[Colin Law]

On 21 October 2017 at 14:27, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> 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).

Also run, in the terminal
ifconfig

Colin

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> V.W.
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