[OLUG] failures

[Nathan Brown]

Here is another output from the Telnet command  GET /
[root at localhost /]# ipchains -L
Chain input (policy ACCEPT):
Chain forward (policy ACCEPT):
Chain output (policy ACCEPT):
[root at localhost /]#

Thanks,
Nate


tetherow at nol.org wrote:

> On 17 Jan, Nathan Brown wrote:
> > I'm not getting my problem solved here something very simple and very strange is
> > happening and I am not gonna get it ... I was wondering if anyone knew of another
> > LUG anywhere that would possibly be able to help.
> > Thanks again very much,
> > Nate
>
> Sorry I am so behind on mail and this thread is hopefully obsolete but
> just in case...
>
> Lets try starting from the begining:
> 0. Ping localhost (127.0.0.1).  This will insure that your TCP/IP stack
>    works.
>
> 1. Once you dial in try pinging your side of the PPP connection.
>    Check ifconfig for the ip address on ppp0 for your side
>    If this succeeds then you know your side of the ppp connection is up
>    and running.
>
> 2. Try pinging the remote side of the PPP connection should be the PtP
>    address in ifconfig.
>    If this succeeds then you know that the remote side of the ppp
>    connection is up and the static route works.
>    If this fails check your routing table for a static route to the
>    remote side of the ppp connection
>    # route -n
>
>    Kernel IP routing table
>    Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
>    206.222.217.xxx 0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
>    127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 lo
>    0.0.0.0         206.222.217.xxx 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0
>
>    What you are looking for is like the first line in the output
>    206.222.217.xxx is the P-t-P address from ifconfig.  This is the
>    route that tells you machine how to get to the remote side of the
>    ppp connection which is your gateway.
>
> 3. Try pinging anything else (say 204.71.200.67 which is yahoo)
>    If this works then you know it is not a routing or communications
>    issue but is really a DNS problem more than likely.
>    If it doesn't work check the route table again (see above) and look
>    for the line like the last one.  Again 206.222.217.xxx should be the
>    P-t-P address listed in ifconfig.  This is your default route (hence
>    the Destination of 0.0.0 and Genmask of 0.0.0 as well as the G in
>    flags).  Make sure that the Iface matches the ppp connection
>    interface (should be ppp0 but doesn't HAVE to be).  If that line
>    exists but you can't ping outside try something else, such as
>      # telnet 204.71.200.67 80
>      Connected to 204.71.200.67.
>      Escape character is '^]'.
>    Then type GET / and hit enter.  You should get the HTML for Yahoo's
>    homepage from this.  If not things have now gotten very strange in
>    the routing setup, possible culprit is a firewall on your machine (I
>    wouldn't think you are dialed in to anything that doesn't allow www
>    access out).
>    # ipchains -L
>    If you get output from this command email it to the list and we'll
>    see if that is what is causing problems.
>
> In all the above use IP addresses.  If these work the issues is name
> service and not networking.
>
> If it is nameservice try the following:
> # nslookup www.yahoo.com 205.138.126.6
> This will use dns.radiks.net to lookup the IP address for yahoo.  If
> this works cat /etc/resolv.conf it should look something like:
>   search radiks.net
>   nameserver 205.138.126.6
>
> If you have gotten this far and things still aren't working mail me
> back.
>
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> Sam Tetherow                           tetherow at nol.org
> Director of Development
> Nebrask@ Online                        http://www.nol.org/
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