[OLUG] failures

[Chad S. Lauritsen]

Nate:

since you can ping yourself, I'm assuming that your ping is not broken. But it does seem that your resolver is broken. I don't know how to fix this without re-installing. Hopefully you can take
the box to the meeting and someone can help you.


Nathan Brown wrote:

> I have eard of firewalls but don't really know anything about them ... this is a
> standard install from a redhat disk (Red Hat 6)  I have no Idea what it installed
> other than the fact that during installation i installed everything that did not
> say server and did not allow any server installation .
>
> -------------------------
>
> Here are the reports from the tasks that the previous communication suggested
>
> $ Ping 127.0.0.1
> Ping 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 tt1=255 time=0.1 ms
>
> # I let this run 15 sequences and got this in return
>
> ---127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 15 packets transmitted, 15 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.1/0/1 ms
>
> so i guess i CAN ping myself
>
> ----------------------------
> And then i tried to ping the other side (the other side being that number
> emmediately after the P-t-P: )and got the same as before reported below
>
> $ ping -c 5 206.29.242.171
> PING 206.29.242.171 (206.29.242.171): 56 data bytes
>
> --- 206.29.242.171 ping statistics ---
>
> 5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>


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