Internet Connection problem... MDK9

[Guest timmyp]

Recently installed MDK9 with a LAN and modem and have my modem configured and dialing. When I connect to my ISP, I can't go anywhere. I have read the various info and posts about this issue and still can't seem to get anywhere.

 

When I pull up Mozilla and request a site (eg. www.yahoo.com), it sticks on "Resolving name yahoo.com"

 

This would seem to indicate a DNS problem, so I've double checked that I have the correct DNS nameservers (I do), I've removed the reference to any Gateways as the Mandrake User Docs suggest, my resolve.conf file has the correct DNS servers listed....

 

Where else should I be looking? Which file lists the order for DNS lookup? Is this a conflict because of the LAN?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Tim

[johnnyv]

connect to isp

then open up a console window and ping the dns server by number.

Also try pinging your isp by number rather than name.

 

try yahoo's ip number 66.218.71.81

 

If you can ping your dns / isp / etc by there ip number but not there name it is very likely to be dns related. If you can't ping by numder it's something else

[Guest timmyp]

OK.... I have verified with my ISP that I am connecting and show as being connected on their end.

 

I cannot, however, ping my ISP, DNS servers or Yahoo by number. This would lead me to believe that the IP protocol is not installed? This doesn't make sense, though, since I CAN ping and receive replies from both of the other computers on my internal network. In addition, I have Samba up and running and everything is fine there. So I don't think that the IP protocol is the issue.

 

My next guess would be a Gateway problem or a confusion between ppp0 and eth0 over accessing the internet. Here are my 'route -n' and 'ifconfig' outputs while connected to my ISP:

 

[root@linux root]# route -n

Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

216.255.222.10 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0

192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

0.0.0.0 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

 

 

[root@linux root]# ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:6B:88:D6

inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

RX bytes:2019 (1.9 Kb) TX bytes:6465 (6.3 Kb)

Interrupt:5 Base address:0x2000

 

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:267 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:267 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:21508 (21.0 Kb) TX bytes:21508 (21.0 Kb)

 

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol

inet addr:216.255.211.190 P-t-P:216.255.222.10 Mask:255.255.255.255

UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:6 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:3

RX bytes:300 (300.0 B) TX bytes:87 (87.0 B)

 

 

Does anything look strange there? What other conf. files should I be looking at or posting for analyses?

 

Thanks again,

 

Tim

[Guest BoogieMan]

I had this problem when Dialing up,

 

You have a thing set as 0.0.0.0 which is an invalid IP address (just like 255.255.255.255).

 

Try "/sbin/route delete default"(or whatever your 0.0.0.0 is set to) in your Super User Terminal... then dial up and request a site.

 

I hope this works.. I am currently trying to get my network setup and share internet accross them, No idea how, hehe... Maybe you sould send me your smb.conf file to replace mine because our setup seems very similar :D.

 

Many thanks,

- BoogieMan (your dumb linux newbie :D)

[Guest goodstyles]

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