sturlahh@xxxxxxxxx wrote: The fact is that the gateway setting is missing(My mistake) when I issued "route -n", after I put it back the browser now works perfect! Tks to all helpers.On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 06:02, Barry Yu wrote:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 07:35, Barry Yu wrote:When tried to go to any website, getting alert "The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.google.com" When I issued "ping www.google.com" I got "Connect: Network is unreadchable" ** I can pint 192.168.1.1 (The router ) successively. The firewall is turned off. This FC1 is a fresh installation. This machine works on w2k, This machine also worked on Red Hat 9 before this new FC1 installation. This machine has fix ip add 192.168.1.222, the router (gateway) is 192.168.1.1 and I can ping it without failure. can any one provide some steps to diagnose this ? Tks a lot.Check your /etc/resolv.conf file for proper DNS entries. --- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KYHave checked /etc/resolv.conf and every dns add are per ISP provided, can't see anything wrong.2.4.22-1.2166.nptl #1 Fri Jan 30 13:48:31 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux 22:20:34 up 2 days, 23:31, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.31, 0.19Can you ping ip-addresses outside the router? Sturla --------------------------------- |