Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

[Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:49:10 -0500, I wrote:
> My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL service via a Netgear hub
> (router) at home.  Sometime in the last two days, the machine lost its
> network connection to the outside world.  It seems to be a software problem.

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:38:23 +0100, Christian Jaeger replied:

> check that no other computer in your network is using ip 192.168.0.4

Thanks.  I'll look into this tonight.  I also have a spare, never-used
identical router that I can test.  I may also see if I can ping from the
netinst CD in rescue mode.  That succeeds on the machine I'm using now.

Is it strange that I can't get past the router with ping or with a browser
but I do get name resolution?  Surely I have to get past the browser for
name resolution.