On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:46:02PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> At 11:09 AM 3/6/2007, Chris Lale wrote:
>
> >Are you using the expert install ("expert" at the installer boot screen)?
> >
> >AFAIR, there is then an option to supply nameservers manually. I had
> >to do this when I was using a particular ADSL modem/router-in-a-box
> >to connect to my ISP. The modem/router did not have an option to set
> >nameservers, so DHCP was detected OK but would not work during a
> >normal "install". Setting the nameservers in "expert" install solved
> >the problem. I did report this as a bug, but it was a couple of years ago.
>
> Yes, I am using the expert install ("expert" on etch and "expert26"
> on sarge), but that's not the problem. It gets the nameservers fine,
> like I said: /etc/resolv.conf is fine. And when I do "route" to try
> and figure out why it says "no route to host" it displays my
> gateway's hostname. And "ifconfig" shows my eth device configured
> correctly. It's just not getting anywhere.
>
> There has got to be some weird combination of problems with the DHCP
> client in Debian and my ISP, because like I said, it worked passing
> through another box, it worked in woody that I used to use, and it
> worked in two different versions of Slackware, all with absolutely
> nothing of any kind except DHCP autoconfiguration.
>
> Right now I'm using Slackware until I can figure this out. If there
> are any files or details I can provide to help diagnose this, please
> tell me, but other than my hardware or logs of some kind, it's
> absolutely the vanilla installation and I'm not changing a single
> thing. I appreciate your time.
can you ping a ip address and can not ping a domain name?
Have you considered booting a livecd and then using debootstrap as a way
to install?
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