ping 100% packet loss

bladefist · n00b Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 20

I'm just doing the first few steps of the newb installation guide and i get my network up and going, and when i ping yahoo i get 100% packet loss...whats wrong? am i behind a router? Yes. did i try it w/o a router? yes. did it work? no

floffe · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 12:56 am Post subject:

Could you ping the router? Do you use dhcp? What network card do you use and what modules are loaded (do 'lsmod' and list the output here) What does 'ifconfig --all' say?

Dracnor · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 397 Location: Pennsylvania

do you have any ip address (ifconfig)? can you ping your loopback address (127.0.0.1)? can you ping your gateway? can you ping your dns servers? do you have dns servers specified in /etc/resolv.conf? do you have a route specified (netstat -r)?

JohnDoe · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 2:44 am Post subject: resolv.conf

Did you try to ping any ip address? Did it work? If so, the problem is with /etc/resolv.conf

add a line like this
nameserver ip.for.dns.server

and it should work.