Only amsn and konqueror connects to the internet

Login · 05-07-2006, 12:36 PM

I have Mandriva2006 installed on my computer and router D-link(DSL-500T)and a dynamic IP address, Konqueror and amsn are the only programs that connect to the internet but all other programs can't ( firefox, epiphany,Azureus,mozilla,.. ) even the urpmi always gives me an error that it is unable to connect ... i don't know what to do or what is wrong . can someone help me in this ??

win32sux · 05-07-2006, 01:01 PM

did you check the proxy settings??

Login · 05-07-2006, 01:05 PM

what proxy settings to check ( i am little bit a newbie )

win32sux · 05-07-2006, 01:25 PM

in your browser's settings... like, check to see if you have firefox configured to use a proxy or not ( Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Connection Settings ) and then compare that with your konqueror's settings... if one is configured for a proxy and the other is not, then that's probably your issue right there...

Login · 05-07-2006, 01:40 PM

the proxy settings are the same in firefox and konqueror.. but the problem is that all the applications can't access the net except konqueror and amsn i don't know why .. i thought at first it was something wrong with the router , but the amsn and konqueror works fine so i don't know what is the problem

win32sux · 05-07-2006, 01:45 PM

hmmmm... are you able to ping the WWW??

Code:

ping -c5 google.com

i'm not sure what could be causing your problem... if you start firefox from a terminal (command line) do you get any error messages when you try to surf??

Login · 05-07-2006, 02:49 PM

Quote:

$ ping -c5 google.com
PING google.com (72.14.207.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=236 time=168 ms
64 bytes from google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=236 time=165 ms
64 bytes from google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=236 time=167 ms
64 bytes from google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=236 time=172 ms
64 bytes from google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=236 time=168 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4012ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 165.719/168.655/172.561/2.291 ms

and the firefox each time i try to connect to any site it says " The operation timed out when attempting to contact www.google.com "

Tuetates · 05-07-2006, 02:56 PM

sounds similar to my problem, although I have got some more apps working but not all (I posted for help earlier today, although noone has replied). If your terminal takes 20sec+ to load up then I guess its a reverse dns lookup issue. I had to go through and make sure that my hostname, dnsdomainname and /etc/hosts had the correct stuff in, if they are slightly wrong it causes some odd problems with lots of programs but according to web pages i have been reading konqueror does not suffer from it. I think that hostname should be one word, and domain two seperated by a fullstop and then the hosts file should have the fully qualified domain name and the hostname and the domain name each as seperate items under the local host ip....although since I havent fixed my pc completely I guess I am wrong somewhere. Check out by earlier post for my net settings and check against yours...