[Oops! Mistakenly replied to to...@tuxteam.de -
here's where it should have gone.]
On 30/08/19 03:42 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 01:45:47PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> My laptop (a Lenovo T410 running Stretch) has suddenly lost the
>> ability to access the Internet.
>>
>> cjg@cjglap2:~$ ping pop.surfnaked.ca
>> PING pop.surfnaked.ca (216.113.192.36) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
> Hm. Host resolution seems to work, somehow. Don't count on
> "ping" (ICMP) getting through, not all firewalls allow that
> (perhaps your ISP has changed his mind while you were away?)
>
> Try "traceroute pop.surfnaked.ca", that might shed some light
traceroute to pop.surfnaked.ca (216.113.192.36), 30 hops max, 60 byte
packets
1 gateway (192.168.0.1) 95.588 ms 95.547 ms 95.517 ms
2 10.31.12.1 (10.31.12.1) 95.498 ms 95.477 ms 95.454 ms
3 154.11.12.196 (154.11.12.196) 95.438 ms 154.11.2.53 (154.11.2.53)
95.402 ms 154.11.12.196 (154.11.12.196) 95.388 ms
4 154.11.2.86 (154.11.2.86) 95.351 ms 95.325 ms 95.304 ms
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 69.196.88.130 (69.196.88.130) 23.574 ms 23.555 ms 23.517 ms
8 216.113.192.217 (216.113.192.217) 23.487 ms 23.437 ms 23.412 ms
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *
16 * * *
17 * * *
18 * * *
19 * * *
20 * * *
21 * * *
22 * * *
23 * * *
24 * * *
25 * * *
26 * * *
27 * * *
28 * * *
29 * * *
30 * * *
>> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
>> Use Iface
>> default gateway 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
>
>> What's that word "gateway" doing in the "Gateway" column? [...]
>
> That's because your host resolves whatever IP address to that
> host name.
>
> Try "route -n" if you don't want that.
That gave me 192.168.0.1. Interesting that this doesn't happen
on my desktop machine, which is also running Stretch (albeit a
slightly older version).
Anyway, my laptop seems to be able to access the Internet again.
Thanks for the help.
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
