Internet (ADSL over network). Often can't resolve pages, sparadic periods of opration

masand · 02-20-2005, 09:49 AM

i am happy that it woked

nutnut · 02-21-2005, 11:13 AM

Hi,

You'll never guess what.. it's stopped working again :'(!

I shut the PC down yesterday, and then when I started it up again today I was dissapointed to find yet again no internet connection

?

Now, I know it's a linux thing because I've got the internet on this Windows machine (otherwise I wouldn't be writing this ;P) so... yeah? However today I'm not so sure it's DNS related because last time I was actually able to access things via IP whereas today, there's no access atall.

I've checked named is up and resolv.conf is conf'd correctly so... I am once again stuck for ideas :P!

For referance, this is what happens when I ping:

Code:

[james@localhost james]$ ping google.com
connect: Network is unreachable

Thanks in advance,
James.

masand · 02-21-2005, 11:30 AM

post the O/P of

ifconfig

regards

nutnut · 02-21-2005, 11:41 AM

Hi,

ipconfig command not found?

Thanks,
James

masand · 02-21-2005, 11:56 AM

that ifconfig

try

/sbin/ifconfig

regards

nutnut · 02-21-2005, 12:09 PM

Hi,

Here's the output you requested:

Code:

eth0       Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:1B:00:0F:5C
              inet addr:192.168.4.18 Bcast:192.168.4.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
              RX packets:946 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:847 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
              RX bytes:277790 (271.2 Kb) TX bytes:84312 (82.3 Kb)

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:24129 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:24129 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:1650276 (1.5 Mb) TX bytes:1650276 (1.5 Mb)

Thanks,
James

masand · 02-21-2005, 12:49 PM

i wonder if ur eth0 is up
why are we not getting any entry for ut in
route -n

can u ping your router

try again with

service network restart
and as u mentioned in ur main post about DHCP,so u use dhcp to get a IP???

regards

nutnut · 02-21-2005, 01:02 PM

Hi,

Heh, it turned out I had it set to use a static IP... which my router didn't agree with

! Anyway, I switched it over to DHCP and restarted the network service and now it's working again

.

The only problem is, it's a little slow and it won't load the linux questions forums! It transfers data for an absolute eternity, unlike Windows which loads it almost instantly?

Thanks for that,
James

masand · 02-21-2005, 01:26 PM

use static IP and point ur gateway to ur router and start ur named a,this should work i think

regards

nutnut · 02-21-2005, 01:26 PM

Hi,

Scrap that last post, it was due to the fact restarting the network service reset my resolv.conf, hence removing the localhost nameserver.

I readded it, and now everything's running smoothly. Thanks for you continued help... I think you've answered every question I've posted on this forum so far lol!

Thanks again,
James

masand · 02-21-2005, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by nutnut
Thanks for you continued help... I think you've answered every question I've posted on this forum so far lol!

thats really nice to know !!