destination host unreachable (mandrake)

kup22r · 04-23-2004, 10:28 PM

just another simple networking question....

i live in dorms at my university and we are given primary/secondary dns, gateway, netmask, ip....i have prim/sec dns in my resolv.conf, netmask/ip in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network....

this should work (i think), but when i try to ping some ip (such as yahoo), i get "destination host unreachable"....i can ping my own ip

what can be the problem?

zaphodiv · 04-23-2004, 11:55 PM

What distribution?

I assume your internet connection is not working at all.

Sounds like it has got an ip address for yahoo.com so your gateway setting is probably wrong.

Show us the output of ipconfig, route, and traceroute -d yahoo.com

kup22r · 04-24-2004, 02:12 AM

i'm using mandrake (it's in the subject)...i don't seem to have the traceroute command nor ipconfig (i took it you meant ifconfig though)...

kup22r · 04-24-2004, 03:15 AM

i pinged my gateway and the ip it spit out for the gateway was slightly different then the gateway i have in /etc/sysconfig/network....i put this different gateway in place of the original and now i'm getting....

ping whatever.com
ping: uknown host whatever.com

any ideas?

kup22r · 04-24-2004, 11:06 AM

problem ended up being that i was using my nvidia card to connect and it wasn't working properly...i conncet fine using my 3com card...