Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install
Ugh. What does route show? It sounds like your route to your gateway is b0rked.
--b
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Mat Enders <mat.enders@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Brad Alexander <storm16@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sounds like a dns problem, Mat. Can you ping a network address outside
>> your borders? I like to keep several in the back of my head for that:
>> GTE/MCI/VZN's dns servers are 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3. Google's
>> are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Can you ping them by address? what does the
>> search and/or domain lines in /etc/resolv.conf say?
>>
>> --b
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Mat Enders <mat.enders@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Here is a stumper. I just completed a brand new installation of
>>> Debian, during installation it could not reach the repositories so
>>> only a base installation was completed.
>>>
>>> I am logged directly into the machine not via ssh. Network appears to
>>> have configured correctly via dhcp.
>>>
>>> ifconfig says I have the correct network address
>>> route -n shows the correct gateway
>>> resolv.conf shows the correct DNS servers
>>>
>>> from another machine on the network I can ping the gateway and www.google.com
>>> from the new install attempting to ping the gateway destination host
>>> unreachable and for Google it says unknown host
>>>
>>> I can ssh into the machine via its IP address and I can ssh into other
>>> machines on the network, from the newly installed machine, via their
>>> IP address
>>>
>>> I am stumped any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>
> No I can not ping outside of the network at I can not even ping the
> gateway with the new machine. I can ping inside the network and use
> ssh inside the network with the new machine.
>
> --
> Mathew E. Enders
>
> "Where once Samba and Apache sold Linux to the world they are now just
> part of the plumbing. But that's OK, plumbers make good money."
> --Jeremy Allison
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