I am surprised that it is not <br><a href="http://192.168.1.1">192.168.1.1</a> instead, what my linksys router came with standard.<br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Nagel</b> <<a href="mailto:networkman@triton.net">networkman@triton.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I was having problems with Internet access -
basically, the Mozilla browser would start up and almost never go
anywhere. When I'd put in a site like <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.google.com</a> or <a href="http://ubuntulinux.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://ubuntulinux.org</a> the browser would sit
there with the little circle spinning and a message at the bottom of the screen
saying "Finding site." I was able to use the "Network Tools" and confirm
that I could PING both servers, plus I'd downloaded those OS updates earlier so
I knew I had valid Internet access.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">My network:</font></div>
<div> </div><font face="Arial" size="2">
</font><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br>(Internet/ISP)<br>
|<br>69.xxx.xxx.xxx<br> |<br>Actiontec DSL modem/router
<br> |<br><a href="http://192.168.0.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">192.168.0.1</a><br> |<br>Linksys
BEFS41 - DHCP enabled, UPnP enabled, etc.<br>
|<br><a href="http://192.168.1.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">192.168.1.1</a><br> |<br>Cisco 2924EN switch(10/100
24port)<br> |<br>(All PCs in the house)</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br>Okay, so on all of my Windows boxes, the Primary DNS is <a href="http://192.168.0.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">192.168.0.1</a>
probably because that's what the Linksys router is getting told by the Actiontec
modem/router. And this presents no problem to the Windows machines - they
surf the net, ftp, email, etc. without any problems at all. On a hunch, I
decided to go into the network settings on the Linux box and change the DNS from
<a href="http://192.168.0.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">192.168.0.1</a> to <a href="http://216.165.129.158" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
216.165.129.158</a> which is the Primary DNS server
that the Actiontec router gets from the ISP. Upon doing so, the
Linux box is now able to get out to any website without any problem,
ie. it's working as it should.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">So, the upside is that I can now browse the web on a Linux box, and I have
the satisfaction of having solved the problem on my own. :) The downside
is that I still don't understand why it failed to work in the first place when
the Windows PCs all work fine with the DNS being <a href="http://192.168.0.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">192.168.0.1</a> :(</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Anybody got an idea?<br></font></div>
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