Sorry for the top post but it just seems easier at the moment. I will resolve this issue today come hell or high water. Thanks for the excellent advice all. That's why I love BLU.
- Eric "damn dns!" On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne >> >> eric@webserver1:~$ ping google.com >> ping: unknown host google.com > > That's a pretty conclusive dns failure... > > >> eric@webserver1:~$ ping 173.194.43.38 >> PING 173.194.43.38 (173.194.43.38) 56(84) bytes of data. >> < hangs forever here > > > I don't know what that IP address is, but it should be pingable. The failure > to reply certainly indicates an ICMP failure as well as DNS failure... > > >> eric@webserver1:~$ ping 10.0.0.15 > > Oh dear. You should never use the 0 or 255 networks either. While this is > ok sometimes, the problem is: Some devices just assume a netmask derived > from the zero's, or just assume a broadcast because of the 255. I had this > situation (granted, 10 years ago) where my boss gave me a router, told me to > configure the following networks (insert network diagram here). It was a > cisco router, and the syntax for creating the routes did not allow me to > explicitly specify the netmask - The 10.0.0.0 was implied to be 10.0.0.0/8, > while 10.1.1.0 was implied to be 10.1.1.0/24. Hopefully this sort of thing > is becoming antiquated and phased out in the modern day. > > >> eric@webserver1:/etc$ sudo tail -100 resolv.conf >> # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by >> resolvconf(8) >> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE >> OVERWRITTEN >> nameserver 4.4.8.8 >> nameserver 8.8.8.8 > > Google's nameservers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 > That's a type-o. > > Still, I think it's safe to conclude that your firewall is blocking both > outbound ICMP and DNS. > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
