On Monday 30 august Bogdan Taru wrote:
> Maybe that's because sites like cnn.com reject all icmp packets. So your
>packets get there, but there's no response. Maybe you should try
>traceroute instead of ping.
I believe you. But I cannot connect with Netscape or the KDE-browser also...
This stuff is really complicated. I'd had my internet connection with W'98
working in 5 minutes... Damn... what I'm doing wrong...?
>
>Have fun,
The harder I try the more fun Linux gives me :-)
Greetings,
David.
>> Still trying to get my internetconnection working...
>>
>> Because I thought I might have been installing a firewall of proxy, I
>> thought I'd a reinstall. Worked like a charm.
>> Now I can't even get my mail :-(
>> Something has changes though... When I'm connected to my ISP I can ping
for
>> instance www.cnn.com or www.nasa.gov. It gives me an IP-number but that's
as
>> far as it gets. I donnot receive any packets back...
>>
>> So... it this a DNS-problem? I guess not, because ping finds a IP-number
>> which belongs to a host...
