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I have just installed Red Hat 9 (Publishers Edition). I now have a dual boot win98/linux box. I also have a home network with a LinkSys router and one other win98 box. The router is connected to a cable modem. My ISP is adelphia cable. The only issue I'm having with Linux is the fact that I can not load web pages. Everything else is very cool so far!
Using the ping command, when I've booted into linux, I can ping my router, and I can ping my other win98 machine. With linux I can also load the router admin page. Using my win98 machine I can ping my linux box. So, my home network is working. When I ping anything outside of my home network it times out. I've tried cnn dot com and yahoo dot com. Should I have tried to ping IP's instead? Would that make a difference?
I've googled to try and find things that may be wrong. I looked at my resolv.conf file and the primary and secondary DNS IP's are correct. In my host.conf file I have order bind, host. When I type in ifconfig (inside the /sbin/ or outside of it) I get a "bad command or file not found" message. Same thing with arp. I've even tried ifconfig eth0 up and ifconfig eth0 down. I get the same error message. This morning I realized this may be because I was not logged in as root.?.?. When linux starts I have to enter a username and password. The password is not the same as my root password. I'm guessing, if I use my root password, I will be into linux as root?.?.?
Does anyone on the list have any other ideas or suggestions?
look into firewall settings I had that problem for a bit to and my firewall settings that are built into linux were set to high so unless it had a cert it wouldn't load
If you can only retreive webpages by IP and not by name you have a DNS problem, as in you do not have one.
Usually you want to use your ISPs Domain Name Servers.
I don't know the Ret Hat specific method, but normally this information goes into "/etc/resolv.conf"
"man resolv.conf" should give you the idea.
Mine has a "domain" entry and two "nameserver" entries.
Good Luck
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MetricRef Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 eth0
I'm wondering about the 192.168.1.0 address on the first line under destination. From what I've read, that should be my network IP. My network IP is 192.168.1.100. Also, the third line, the 169.254.0.0 is an unfamiliar IP address. My router's IP is 192.168.1.1 and my other box is 192.168.1.101 so I don't know where 169.254.0.0 comes from.
When I look at my router's set up, via the web interface, the 192.168.1.0 is the starting number in the set of IP's that the router assigns. Should I change this on my router? Should I erase the 169 IP number?
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