On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a dns problem, Mat. Can you ping a network address outside
> your borders? I like to keep several in the back of my head for that:
> GTE/MCI/VZN's dns servers are 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3. Google's
> are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Can you ping them by address? what does the
> search and/or domain lines in /etc/resolv.conf say?
>
> --b
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Mat Enders <mat.end...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here is a stumper.  I just completed a brand new installation of
>> Debian, during installation it could not reach the repositories so
>> only a base installation was completed.
>>
>> I am logged directly into the machine not via ssh.  Network appears to
>> have configured correctly via dhcp.
>>
>> ifconfig says I have the correct network address
>> route -n shows the correct gateway
>> resolv.conf shows the correct DNS servers
>>
>> from another machine on the network I can ping the gateway and www.google.com
>> from the new install attempting to ping the gateway destination host
>> unreachable and for Google it says unknown host
>>
>> I can ssh into the machine via its IP address and I can ssh into other
>> machines on the network, from the newly installed machine, via their
>> IP address
>>
>> I am stumped any help would be appreciated.
>>

No I can not ping outside of the network at I can not even ping the
gateway with the new machine.  I can ping inside the network and use
ssh inside the network with the new machine.

-- 
Mathew E. Enders

"Where once Samba and Apache sold Linux to the world they are now just
part of the plumbing.  But that's OK, plumbers make good money."
--Jeremy Allison


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