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I am very new in Linux -but already in love with it! - and I just installed Fedora Core 6 (as my first Linux installation :-> ) a few days ago. Now I have a problem with DNS resolution:
I am running Fedora on a Toshiba laptop dual booting with XP, have an ADSL connection using a D-Link router and definitely don't have any problem with browsing the pages on the internet in XP but in fedora I can't browse any URL. Only when I use the website's IP address I am able to view it and as I click on the links on the pages it gets a very long time (sometimes resulting in a timeout error) to load it.
Here is my ifconfig results:
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
nameserver 192.168.1.1
search localdomain
so I didn't use the code you provided and surprisingly able to ping google.com:
PING google.com (64.233.187.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=241 ms
64 bytes from google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=240 time=240 ms
64 bytes from google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=240 ms
64 bytes from google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=240 time=240 ms
64 bytes from google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=240 time=250 ms
64 bytes from google.com (64.233.187.99): icmp_seq=6 ttl=240 time=240 ms
--- google.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 4999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 240.073/242.295/250.311/3.631 ms
But again can not browse the page in Mozilla Firefox! Here is the error message I see everytime I try to load www.google.com:
The connection has timed out
The server at www.google.ae is taking too long to respond.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
Distribution: Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2, Windows 2003 Server/Vista/7/XP/2000/NT/98, Ubuntux64, CentOS4.8/5.4
Posts: 2,986
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There's got to be some kind of host-based firewall that is preventing Firefox from accessing the web. Try using the Konqueror or Nautilus browser. Same problem? This sounds sort of like this thread:
It sounds like the same problem I am having. I can ping computers on my network and google but when I try and open a site in firefox it says it can’t find it. I’m running fedora core 6 as a virtual machine using vmware. The internet is working fine on the host PC.
traceroute to www.google.ae (1.0.0.0), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 mygateway.ar7 (192.168.1.1) 0.591 ms 0.507 ms 0.540 ms
Unable to look up 195.229.244.25: Temporary failure in name resolution
2 195.229.244.25 8.924 ms 9.805 ms 10.736 ms
Unable to look up 195.229.245.113: Temporary failure in name resolution
3 195.229.245.113(N!) 8.592 ms (N!) 10.402 ms (N!) 9.645 m
Ping -c 100 has no losses. And w3m was not recognized as a valid command on my shell (command not found).
Well DNS looks to have been exhonerated really... install wireshark, or just use tcpdump to see what the actual network traffic is doing here. what if you try to go to just http://64.233.183.104 ? try going to that, and also run "tcpdump -vn host 64.233.183.104" just before that, and show us the console output. if there's none at all, try just "tcpdump -vn" and go from there, could be a bit noisy though...
There's got to be some kind of host-based firewall that is preventing Firefox from accessing the web. Try using the Konqueror or Nautilus browser.
I tried to install other browsers but it seems the package manager doesn't work and after some time of trying to retrieve software information comes up with the follwoing error:
Unable to retrieve software information
Details: "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core"
what if you try to go to just http://64.233.183.104 ? try going to that, and also run "tcpdump -vn host 64.233.183.104" just before that, and show us the console output. if there's none at all, try just "tcpdump -vn" and go from there, could be a bit noisy though...
I tried it before and have absolutely no problem browsing using the IP address. The following is the result of tcpdump -vn command while browsing http://64.233.183.104/index.html (my ISP doesn't allow to use just IP) :
hmm, well that yum error may well be related... it uses wget or curl to download a list of files from the net...
can you do that again using the domain name? that was the objective... to see if when sent to that destination that you'll actuallysee anythign coming back from them. obviously it requires that that specific ip is used for google...
can you do that again using the domain name? that was the objective... to see if when sent to that destination that you'll actuallysee anythign coming back from them. obviously it requires that that specific ip is used for google...
does that ip address, 1.0.0.0 look at all familiar to you? ever typed it in to your proxy configs? i googled from "firefox 1.0.0.0 ip" and got similar sounding problems on unbuntu forums, but didn't see a solution.
i really really hope you've been googling for this yourself...? i just found this... https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/81057 which looks relevant.. have you found that link yourself yet?
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