[ALUG] Wierd routing/DNS problem

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:46:29PM +0100, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> I'm playing with a Suse 10.2 installation on my new hardware.  It's
> all basically working locally but routing/DNS is broken.
> 
> I can traceroute to anywhere, I can ping anywhere but I can't actually
> communicate with anywhere - i.e. I can't connect Firefox to any web
> sites and I can't ssh to anywhere.
> 
> So what's set up wrong?  /etc/resolv.conf has the right things in it
> (same as my other system anyway) and the default gateway is the same
> as my other system.  I'm stumped.

You say routing/DNS is broken, but if you can traceroute/ping then
routing sounds fine.

Are you tracerouting/pinging an IP or a hostname?

If an IP, can you ssh to an IP address?

Do you have any firewalling rules?

J.

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