Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Mihira Fernando wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:42:49 -0500
> Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
>
> > But if it dropped me I would see a SIGHUP in syslog and I don't. I
> > can still ping the IP that was assigned to me.
> >
> > Hugo
>
> You can always ping the IP assigned to you from your OWN PC. At the
> times you cannot resolve any domains, can you ping external IPs ? such
> as 8.8.8.8 (google DNS).

I can now host 8.8.8.8 and get google-public-dns-a.google.com
I can dig google-public-dns-a.google.com and get 
google-public-dns-a.google.com. 86283 IN A      8.8.8.8

But when I ping 8.8.8.8 I get no response even though I can resolve domains.

firewall is off.

Hugo