Name resolution

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 08:14:16 UTC 2005


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:54:40 +0000, Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For some reason, the newest FC3 (vanilla) box on my network can access
> everything inside of the network (i.e. on the domains 192.168.2.xxx),
> yet won't access anything on the outside world (I can't ping an IP
> address or something like www.bbc.co.uk).
> 
> The firewall is switched off on the box and I don't have a firewall
> running on my router.
> 
> The /etc/resolv.conf file has been hand-edited to have the DNS of my ISP
> rather than trusting my router.
> 
> Any ideas on what is going on with it?
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul

Can you provide output of 'netstat -r'?  (is you gateway/default route
setup right?)

Some routers also restrict outside access.  Any chance it is setup for
the IP address of this box?

tom




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