[ale] Something is Fishy About My Network

[Kenneth Ratliff]

When things go screwy, DNS is usually a culprit.

First things first -

Can you ping the IP address that was assigned to you?

Can you ping 192.168.1.1?

If you type

dig google.com

at the command line, what happens?

Can you ping google.com?

Oh, and turn off Avahi if it's installed and see if that mystically  
fixes your problems. It likes to hijack DNS


On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Marc Ferguson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running Fedora 10 x86_64 and I really think something is odd  
> about my ability to network and I think it's all pointing to DNS.   
> First, I've been running Linux (full time) for almost a year, but I  
> am still a newb.  There are still some Windows concepts that I  
> haven't been able to shake yet, so please be very simple yet  
> thorough with your replies (I'd appreciate it).
>
> So here's the meat of my cry-for-help caserole.
> I'm having a problem pinging my hostname.  I'll ping it and  
> 127.0.0.1 is the resulting IP.
> I see that my router has given my computer an IP address, but it  
> doesn't have the hostname in its table.
> I can't ping, by host name, my computer from any other computer on  
> the home network.
> So because of those issues, I can't properly network my linux box  
> with other computers in my home network.  I just found out (from a  
> friend) that I had an internal firewall turned on.  I didn't even  
> realize that Fedora shipped with a firewall.  From my Windows-days,  
> I've learned that software firewall causes too many headaches.  So;  
> I disabled the firewall I discovered in Fedora.  Thanks for any  
> feedback.
>
> system-config-network 1.5.95
> I'm not all that handy with command-line network configuring yet so  
> I'm using the GUI program system-config-network.  In my DNS tab here  
> are my settings:
> hostname: unicron.cybertron
> primary dns: 192.168.1.1 (router)
> secondary dns:
> tertiary dns:
> dns search path: unicron
>
> -- 
> Marc F.
>
> www.fergytech.com
> Registered Linux User: #410978
>
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