On Wed, May 9, 2007 12:38 pm, Matthew Whiting wrote: >>> connecting fine using this apple iBook. No such luck with my desktop >>> pc.. >>> Its an xtra broadband connection and my machine is connected physically >>> to >>> a port on a linksys wireless router which is connected to a d-link adsl >>> router. What would be appropriate diagnostic tools to use to suss out >>> what >>> is happening? Firefox tries to connect and times out. I'm not familiar >>> enough with linux network admin tools to better determine the problem.. > >> What is the output of >> ifconfig -a >> route -n >> cat /etc/resolv.conf > > ifconfig gives a bunch of details for eth0, lo and sit0. not sure what to > look for here?
I was looking for the output in relation to eth0, which is the forst ethernet device. Posting the output of the command would have been fine. > route -n gives: > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > Weirdly there is no 127. route, but otherwise looks fine. > cat /etc/resolve.conf gives: > nameserver 10.1.1.1 > > clearly wrong, your dns server won't be 10.1.1.1. Try changing this to 192.168.1.1 (if the router provides dns services) or the ip address of your isp's dns server if it doesn't. -- Nick Rout
