On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Dave Smith wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:23:27PM +0200, s.akhtary@teraport.se wrote:
I have installed SuSE one one of my computers and have problem accessing some web sites such as www.sun.com and www.alltheweb.com. I have tried with netscape, Konqueror. lynx and telnet. [snip] This means that the networking services work and the computer can resolve names to IP and I have a contact to the Internet. I do not understand this feature / bug and would appreciate if someone could help me with some suggestions :-)
Are you sure it's not an ISP routing problem?
This is the right question. Please try: 1) dig www.sun.com You should get: ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.sun.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; www.sun.com, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.sun.com. 15h16m55s IN A 192.18.97.241 ;; Total query time: 0 msec ;; FROM: home to SERVER: default -- 192.168.16.3 ;; WHEN: Sun Apr 22 23:37:29 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 29 rcvd: 45 2) dig www.alltheweb.com You should get: ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.alltheweb.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; www.alltheweb.com, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.alltheweb.com. 1D IN A 209.202.148.99 ;; Total query time: 42 msec ;; FROM: home to SERVER: default -- 192.168.16.3 ;; WHEN: Sun Apr 22 23:38:22 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 35 rcvd: 51 3) Now, do a traceroute to each site.
What web sites *can* you access?
Let's try to narrow this down a bit. Can you reach yahoo.com? How about google.com? -- David Benfell benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/resume.html