On Sun, Dec 30, Gerard Rowe wrote:

I'm having some strange things happen on my network at home that I can't seem to put a finger on. The main problem is this, all of a sudden I can't ping, ssh, telnet, or http from any of my SuSE Linux boxes. I can do all of the above from my Win2000 laptop but I can't do it from Linux.

Here is my configuration:

A Netgear RT314 DSL Router which connects to my internal network and my Telocity Gateway. On the internal network I have 2 SuSE 7.2 machines, 1 newly installed SuSE 7.3, 1 Win2000 laptop and a Win98 desktop.

I can work just fine on the Win98 Desktop and the Win2000 laptop but I'm having problems on all my Linux boxes. This is strange because it was working before and nothing has changed. I noticed the problem after I installed 7.3 two nights ago and tried to access the net. At first Konqueror was running REAL SLOW and I found that strange because IE wasn't having any problems with speed (also I never had a problem with Linux or Konqueror before). Now I simply can't access anything by hostname.

Bottom line is this, I can ping numerical IP addresses but not by hostnames. nslookup and dig work just fine in resolving hostnames from the Linux boxes. I'm running my own DNS server and it seems to be working just fine.

Ah, another telocity customer. Ok, here's what I can suggest: 1) make sure /etc/resolv.conf has sensible nameserver addresses in it. Test again. 2) find out from telocity tech support what the default route ip on that gateway is. AFAICT, it is one higher than the assigned IP address you have, e.g. your addr is 68.120.120.111, then the default gw is 68.120.120.112 Be certain that you have such in your routing table. You can see from the output of /sbin/route -n. /sbin/ifconfig will allow you to add the default gateway entry if you do not have it. For future use, add it to /etc/route.conf Luck. Michael -- Michael Fischer 7.5 million years to run michael@visv.net printf "%d", 0x2a; -- deep thought