Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-13 Thread gevisz
2013/8/12 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 12/08/2013 09:13, gevisz wrote: The response of the first router contained an error that prevented all the other applications to use it, the system knew about it (for example from the output of the host utility) but, nevertheless did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/08/2013 08:31, gevisz wrote: 2013/8/12 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 12/08/2013 09:13, gevisz wrote: The response of the first router contained an error that prevented all the other applications to use it, the system knew about it (for example from the output of the host

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-12 Thread gevisz
I somehow missed this post, so excuse me for the late reply. 2013/8/5 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Monday 05 Aug 2013 07:06:08 gevisz wrote: My thanks to all who replied to my question. The problem was with my local router, which I also used as DNS. After excluding it from

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/08/2013 09:13, gevisz wrote: The response of the first router contained an error that prevented all the other applications to use it, the system knew about it (for example from the output of the host utility) but, nevertheless did not proceeded with the next router listed in resolv.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-06 Thread Stroller
On 5 August 2013, at 18:28, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... So why change this? Because you can't rely on ethX always being the same physical hardware. On a firewall or router, you absolutely need to rely on this. The udev scheme works around this by letting you specify exact rules that will always

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread gevisz
My thanks to all who replied to my question. The problem was with my local router, which I also used as DNS. After excluding it from /etc/resolv.config and /etc/init.d/net files, Firefox started to work as expected. Thanks to all of you, I now have a working Gentoo on my desktop!!! Still, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread Mick
On Monday 05 Aug 2013 07:06:08 gevisz wrote: My thanks to all who replied to my question. The problem was with my local router, which I also used as DNS. After excluding it from /etc/resolv.config and /etc/init.d/net files, Firefox started to work as expected. Hmm ... I wonder if this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 11:06:52AM +0100, Mick wrote: Suggestions of Michael Kintzios This is the new kernel naming scheme of NICs. Which-ever nomenclature you decide to use, check that that's the only one having a symlink in /etc/init.d to net.lo Yes, there is only enp2s15

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 5 Aug 2013 07:59:09 -0500 schrieb Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com: On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 11:06:52AM +0100, Mick wrote: Suggestions of Michael Kintzios This is the new kernel naming scheme of NICs. Which-ever nomenclature you decide to use, check that

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:31:44PM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Mon, 5 Aug 2013 07:59:09 -0500 schrieb Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com: If this is the new kernel naming scheme of NICs, why this in dmesg: [4.725902] systemd-udevd[1176]: renamed network interface wlan0 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 5 Aug 2013 09:41:09 -0500 schrieb Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com: [...] My point is don't say the new kernel naming scheme of NICs, say the new systemd naming scheme of NICs. Oh, oops. I don't know how I managed to misread your email that spectacularly. Sorry! -- Marc

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread Mick
On Monday 05 Aug 2013 15:41:09 Bruce Hill wrote: On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:31:44PM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Mon, 5 Aug 2013 07:59:09 -0500 schrieb Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com: If this is the new kernel naming scheme of NICs, why this in dmesg: [4.725902]

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 August 2013, at 15:41, Bruce Hill wrote: … For those of us with 2 or more NICs, myself included, we have already setup our systems to use multiple NICs for a purpose and configured the system so that nothing can/will/needs to rename subsequent NICs. Except you can't say that if you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/08/2013 16:41, Bruce Hill wrote: On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:31:44PM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Mon, 5 Aug 2013 07:59:09 -0500 schrieb Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com: If this is the new kernel naming scheme of NICs, why this in dmesg: [4.725902] systemd-udevd[1176]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-04 Thread Mark Pariente
More exactly, Internet browsers (I have tried Firefox and Links) can connect to the WWW if I type the IP address as, for example, 173.194.71.104 but cannot if I type www.google.com And this is strange because the host utility works as expected (converting www.google.com into 173.194.71.104)

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Aug 2013 19:56:08 gevisz wrote: Trying to migrate from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I have installed Gentoo, profile AMD64 13.0 desktop gnome. Everything so far works as expected except for Internet browsers and GNOME applets that should connect to the Internet. More exactly, Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-04 Thread Kurian Thayil
Can you do a ping and see if the resolv.conf DNS ips are reachable? do a dig @8.8.8.8 www.google.com ## which will do a name resolution with Google DNS servers. also pls post make sure you have correct routing table (route -n) Regards, Kurian. On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Mick