Hi All,

I have a very strange problem connecting to the internet at the moment from my laptop.

I was setting up a dyndns account on my router to enable port forwarding of all port 80 traffic (web server).
My local router address is 192.168.1.1.
I am using WiFi.

I set up a static route to my DG by editing the file … /etc/network/interfaces which looks like this:

auto wlan0

iface wlan0 inet static

address 192.168.1.34
netmask 255.255.255.0

network 192.168.1.0

broadcast 192.168.1.255

gateway 192.168.1.1


BY MISTAKE I disabled dynamic DHCP on my router. This immediately cut my internet connection and disabled all internet access on my LAN. I contacted the ISP and they reset DHCP and all is well now on my LAN … except for my laptop which cannot now connect to the internet.

I am able to connect to other networks BUT I just cannot connect to my usual internet service at home – but the other LAN machines can connect OK. I feel that my machine has been blacklisted to be refused connections by my router that I wrongly configured … does that sound familiar ?

I have also tried using a different static address like 192.168.1.35 and then restart networking with

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart


but that has no effect …

What else can I do ?

Regards,

Steven Matthews

first of all what kind of router do you have? if there is such a blacklist it should be available somewhere on the router's web interface.

Can you ping the gateway?
Perhaps it's just a dns issue?

Kind regards