On 12 January 2007 16:45, Ryan Crisman wrote:
> I do a ping distfiles.gentoo.org
> ping: unknown host distfiles.gentoo.org
>
> Than i try and ping its ip and i get
> connect: network is unreachable
>
> Pinging www.Google.com:
> connect: network is unreachable
>
> contents of resolv.conf
> domain localdomain
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
>
> But as i said before I am able to browser the web in Firefox.

And you are writing your email also in your browser, right?

Taking all the above into account, the conclusion is:

1. Your browser is configured to use a proxy, and the proxy server is given by 
IP address.
2. Your box lacks a default route.

It's a logical AND between 1. and 2. ;-)

Uwe

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