Hi Ralf, I actually can't use traceroute to find the problem. This is in a
VM and as far as I know traceroute doesn't exist for FreeDOS. I have tried
other VMs and they seem to work fine with different OS's, so this is purely
a FreeDOS issue.

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:09 PM Ralf Quint <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/26/2021 1:45 PM, Kelley McChesney wrote:
> > Hi Eric, I've actually been trying DHCP, which seems to be fine. I
> > tried your recommendations and tested both my router's gateway as a
> > nameserver and checked what my host computer was using. Unfortunately,
> > my host computer was using the same server as the DHCP server was
> > giving FreeDOS and my router's gateway didn't work either. I did try
> > pinging some other IP addresses besides 8.8.8.8 that are outside my
> > network and I do seem to have a connection, so it must be a problem
> > DNS-wise.
> Don't use ping, that is a horrible diagnostic tool. It just tells you
> what you already know, that a connection works or it doesn't.
>
> Try using traceroute (tracert in Windows) to find out WHERE
> data/connection is being lost...
>
> Ralf
>
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