On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 01:45:47PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > My laptop (a Lenovo T410 running Stretch) has suddenly lost the > ability to access the Internet. > > cjg@cjglap2:~$ ping pop.surfnaked.ca > PING pop.surfnaked.ca (216.113.192.36) 56(84) bytes of data. Hm. Host resolution seems to work, somehow. Don't count on "ping" (ICMP) getting through, not all firewalls allow that (perhaps your ISP has changed his mind while you were away?) Try "traceroute pop.surfnaked.ca", that might shed some light [...] > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref > Use Iface > default gateway 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 > What's that word "gateway" doing in the "Gateway" column? [...] That's because your host resolves whatever IP address to that host name. Try "route -n" if you don't want that. Cheers -- t
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