On 6/30/2010 2:35 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 06/29/2010 07:50 PM, John Clark wrote:
I can't seem to get my browser/email to connect to Internet. In terminal I can ping www.google.com to my hearts content but I can't connect to it with Firefox. I have no hair to pull out and I don't want to pull scalp. BTW, Ubuntu gets on just fine, out of the box, but I can't stand Debian Linux.
Assuming you have a router and that Ubuntu works fine through the router: from a gnome terminal try: netstat -nr. Make sure the default route (0.0.0.0) is pointing at the correct interface (eg eth0). Check your name servers (cat /etc/resolv.conf). Since you can ping, you should be ok, but sometimes these steps will show you what the problem is. Make sure your browser is not trying to connect through a proxy server.
Minor misconfigurations can cause some interesting problems (such as my Thunderbird issues and I should have known better).
Again, use telnet (as said previously) to make sure your firewall is not blocking outbound ports 80 or 25.
[gaf@rosetta ~]$ telnet www.google.com 80 Trying 72.14.204.99... Connected to www.google.com (72.14.204.99). Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> quit Connection closed.
I cannot telnet out, 'cat /etc/resolv.conf' yields
nameserver 192.168.1.254 #Generated by NetworkManager domain home search home
and 'netstat -nr' yields
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window Irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.068.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
also, the upgrades work too.