My internet wont work plz help :(

[lukataylo]

I just installed ubuntu 10.04 on my pc and i can go on google and gmail, but no other web page so plz help

[zombykillah]

My first guess is that your DNS Settings are screwed ...
You can try:
echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" >> /etc/resolv.conf
temporary ...

For a steady solution you will need to take a look at the DHCP Server and/or Client who shall set these settings.

[lukataylo]

How do I do that?

[Freston]

I just installed ubuntu 10.04 on my pc and i can go on google and gmail, but no other web page so plz help

You can go to Google and gmail?

What happens when you search something on Google? Does that work like you'd expect? Can you click links? What happens?

[lukataylo]

Yes i can send new emails receive new emails, and search different quieries on google, i can even go on ask.com

but not ubunut.com or lifehacker.com

[Freston]

Yeah, that sounds like a DNS problem.

Can you come to this site with your Linux machine? Or do you have to use other machine for that?


Anyway, in Ubuntu on the menu bar click /applications/accessories/terminal


Type this in the terminal:

ping -c 4 www.google.com
ping -c 4 www.lifehacker.com

You should be seeing something like this:

ping -c 4 www.lifehacker.com
PING www.lifehacker.com (69.60.7.199) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 69.60.7.199: icmp_req=1 ttl=245 time=86.5 ms
64 bytes from 69.60.7.199: icmp_req=2 ttl=245 time=88.5 ms
64 bytes from 69.60.7.199: icmp_req=3 ttl=245 time=94.8 ms
64 bytes from 69.60.7.199: icmp_req=4 ttl=245 time=85.7 ms

--- www.lifehacker.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 85.732/88.912/94.803/3.558 ms

Does that work?

[lukataylo]

yeah pinging works but it was kinda slow for lifehacker .com

A i am not able to see this forum I am however able to see gmail and even send emails with attachments etc

Ps I was unable to includ ethe actual code coz of thestupid limit on the forum


btw I also tried changing my dns to open dns and that didnt work

[Freston]

yeah pinging works but it was kinda slow for lifehacker .com

A i am not able to see this forum I am however able to see gmail and even send emails with attachments etc

Ps I was unable to includ ethe actual code coz of thestupid limit on the forum

That's ok. If it pings, it resolves.

btw I also tried changing my dns to open dns and that didnt work

Ah, you figured that out. Good! It would have been the next step, indeed.

What happens when you enter the ip address directly in your browser address bar? For lifehacker that doesn't work for me either (probably a serversetting) but for linuxforums.org it's 174.132.123.98


If that doesn't work either, to rule out the possibility, please reboot your modem, and any router or switch you may have. Just pull the plug and keep it out for ~30 seconds.

It's a clean install? Is this your home connection? Wired, wireless? Any special policies or restrictions, perhaps because it's an apartment building with a shared connection or so?

[lukataylo]

I tried visting the ip adress and that doesnt work I am on a small home n netwrok with a bt home hub and two computers connected to it throuigh a spiltter, plus a Tv connected to the same internet wiered. the same machine contains windows 7 and it works perfectly I have installed ubuntu on the other machine and that works perfectly tooo

but the wiered thing is when I try ping bbc co uk it does

64 bytes from virtual-vip thdo bbc co uk (212 58 224 138): icmp_seq=109 ttl=116 time=32.9 ms
64 bytes from virtual-vip thdo bbc.co.uk (212 58 224 138): icmp_seq=110 ttl=116 time=49.7 ms
64 bytes from virtual-vip thdo bbc co uk (212 58 224 138): icmp_seq=111 ttl=116 time=61.3 ms
64 bytes from virtual-vip thdo bbc co uk (212 58 224 138): icmp_seq=112 ttl=116 time=31.1 ms

Sorry had to replace all teh dots with spaces, and sorry for the late reply

[Freston]

Weird. What exactly happens when you try to visit those sites? Does it wait long, does it give an error immediately? Does it 404, or lead to a redirection page? Can you give examples of sites that work, and sites that don't work?

Basically:
it could be in the hardware of your machine, but then nothing would work
it could be in the OS, but then nothing would work
it could be in the application, you should try another browser
it could be in the network... routers and modems do occasionally need a reboot
it could be in the settings, proxy, cookies, profile... but it's a clean install


But lets look at the network some more, because I'm curious. It's resolving. And it's seeing the other side. This next command may look like voodoo, but it looks at the path your signal is taking, making note of all the hubs it encounters, and then `sed` replaces all periods (.) with underscores (_) so you can post the output here

traceroute www.lifehacker.com | sed 's/\./_/g'

Next stop, try another browser, see how that goes.