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neo86
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 Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:39 pm Post subject: [solved]Internet apps suddenly stopped working... sort of... |
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I've been getting used to running Gentoo Linux for the past few weeks. I was able to connect to my router easily and everything was setup just fine. A few days ago WWW apps just stopped running though. I couldn't use any Mozilla apps such as Firefox or Thunderbird. I couldn't even use wget or links2. However, ping seems to work just fine, and I can access my local network just fine as well. Currently, I'm using my reliable Windows laptop to write this. I've never experienced anything like this on Windows.
ping -c 5 www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.187.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=34.2 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=239 time=34.2 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=239 time=35.0 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=239 time=33.9 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=5 ttl=239 time=32.4 ms
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 32.446/34.005/35.066/0.892 ms
/sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:65:F8:B7
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5749 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8522 errors:10 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:10
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:369496 (360.8 Kb) TX bytes:555479 (542.4 Kb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x8000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7241 (7.0 Kb) TX bytes:7241 (7.0 Kb)
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dgaffuri
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry for the stupid question, but are you sure you've not messed with proxies configuration? |
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neo86
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Nope... Never touched the proxy settings. I'm pretty sure those are application specific, and I have no WWW access for all apps. |
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dgaffuri
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| What happens if you telnet www.google.com 80? |
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neo86
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Err... Hmm... I don't think telnet is installed on my Gentoo installation. It says "bash: telnet: command not found." |
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dgaffuri
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| emerge telnet-bsd |
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neo86
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hehehe... I can't emerge anything 'cause I can't get on the web.  Absolutely nothing works besides ping utility.
edit: Okay, so I downloaded the bz2 file onto my Windows comp., and then browsed to the Windows computer through the network and copied it over to the "distfiles" directory in my "portage" directory. Emerge succeeded. 
This is what I got after I ran: "telnet www.google.com 80"
Trying 66.102.7.99...
telnet: connect to address 66.102.7.99: Connection timed out
As I expected it didn't work. Apparently, it can resolve IP addresses at least though. So I guess that's good. One thing I noticed is that when I was trying to access my Samba shares through Windows it wouldn't recognize the Linux box's host name. However, in Linux I could find my Windows computer's hostname. I don't know if that means anything or not though. Just merely an obersvation. |
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dgaffuri
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Oops!  It's late here. |
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neo86
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| LOL... It's okay. I'm glad at least someone's responding to this post. Last few times I made a post it just dissappeared into the obscurity of the second page, and was left unanswered despite it being a real problem instead of merely something simple or already answered somewhere else. I always click the "Search" button before the "Submit" button despite that function really sucking on this forum. |
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dgaffuri
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| neo86 wrote: | | I always click the "Search" button before the "Submit" button despite that function really sucking on this forum. |
I agree, search on forums doesn't help much, I've never found something related to my search terms...
Anyway, the only thing I may suppose is that your router/firewall cuts HTTP traffic (I don't know how your network is configured). Are you able to reach port 80 on some node in internal network? |
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neo86
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, eff me! It was something to do with the router. I'm not sure what, but it seems that somehow any IP address "lower" than 192.168.0.5 couldn't get Internet access. I tried getting it to work with DHCP, and sure enough it worked. Weird... I haven't touched my router settings in ages. I guess it must've had something to do with the lightning storms around here. I've reset it and now everything seems to be working. Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I don't get why it just affected Linux though. |
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