Working ping, traceroute; all other networking broken
 

Hi,

I have an Eee PC running Xandros. I can connect to the network, and am assigned a DHCP address. I can ping, and the computer resolves domain names correctly.

But anything more complex - opening a web-page, doing an "apt-get update", or attempting to initiate an ssh coonnection fails.

In each case, the computer appears to connect and then starts "waiting". Eventually the connection times out.

Can anyone think what the problem might be?

Many thanks,

Robert

Are you sure it resolves domain names correctly?

On a console, try: nslookup xkcd.com

(If you have recently visited this domain, choose another one, to make sure it isn't cached)


Also, if you are using FireFox, try going to a url and look at the status message

Looking up xkcd.com
Connecting to xkcd.com
Waiting for xkcd.com

At what point does it 'wait'?

nslookup isn't installed on the machine, but I can ping every domain I can think of - google, xcd, slate, etc. Each time I get sensible name resolution, so it is talking to the domain name server and getting a response.

It succesfully gets through the looking and connecting stages; it stalls at the "Waiting for xkcd.com" stage.

Thank you for helping with this, it's much appreciated.

I would also suggest putting "67.18.254.190" into the address bar of firefox. If that gives you the OSNews.com website, then it is a DNS problem.

Are other computers on the network get an IP through DHCP?

Firefox gets through the "Connecting to" stage, and - again - stalls on the "Waiting for 67.18.254.190" stage.

There are other computers on the network, all get their IPs, etc., through DNS, all are working fine. I have reset them and cleared caches; the problem is - unfortunately - definitely with the laptop.