Lost all network connectivity after clean FC3 install

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Dec 9 17:19:44 UTC 2004


Salvatore Indiogine wrote:
>  --- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> ha scritto: 
> 
>>What is the "hosts" entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf on
>>the client PC?
> 
> 
> host    files dns

Good.

>>Try the "dig" tool to diagnose DNS problems on the
>>client (part of the 
>>bind-utils package):
>>
>>$ dig @68.112.12.36 www.cnn.com
> 
> 
> connection timed out; no servers could be reached

If this works on the machine connected to the cable modem then it suggests 
that your packet forwarding rules are broken. What's the output of:

# iptables -n -L

on the machine connected to the cable modem?

Paul.




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