On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:58:01PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
Well I've managed to persuade my Fedora system that it has a fixed network address but it *still* won't talk to the outside world. The symptoms are exactly the same as they were before:-
I can 'host xxx.yyy.zzz' and I get the right IP address back for whatever I've asked for. I can't ssh, ftp or anything to anywhere outside my local subnet.All other systems on the subnet *can* talk various protocols to the outside world. The Fedora system can talk various protocols to other systems on the same subnet.
So can anyone offer any insight, I'm at the swearing at it stage!
I assume that the DNS in /etc/resolv.conf is pointing to a local caching proxy, so host and dig will work...
My guess is that you haven't got a default gateway set, so it doesn't know where to send packets to for the outside...
You can tell by running: /sbin/route -n
If you haven't got an entry with a Destination of 0.0.0.0 then you haven't set the default gateway, set that to the correct router and you should be ok.
Cheers,