On 06/29/2010 07:50 PM, John Clark wrote: > I can't seem to get my browser/email to connect to Internet. In > terminal I can ping www.google.com to my hearts content but I can't > connect to it with Firefox. I have no hair to pull out and I don't want > to pull scalp. BTW, Ubuntu gets on just fine, out of the box, but I > can't stand Debian Linux. > Assuming you have a router and that Ubuntu works fine through the router: from a gnome terminal try: netstat -nr. Make sure the default route (0.0.0.0) is pointing at the correct interface (eg eth0). Check your name servers (cat /etc/resolv.conf). Since you can ping, you should be ok, but sometimes these steps will show you what the problem is. Make sure your browser is not trying to connect through a proxy server. Minor misconfigurations can cause some interesting problems (such as my Thunderbird issues and I should have known better). Again, use telnet (as said previously) to make sure your firewall is not blocking outbound ports 80 or 25. [gaf@rosetta ~]$ telnet www.google.com 80 Trying 72.14.204.99... Connected to www.google.com (72.14.204.99). Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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