dch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for your help so far... > > >did you put in a search line ? > > > > > No - I'm not sure what I should put there... do I need one? after I > rebooted I lost all my changes in here anyway... maybe I should switch > off automatic DNS? I think so, it should be provided by your ISP ? I would think. do you mean the *checkbox* for "Get DNS servers from DHCP" ? Mine is checked to do so ... and I would think you should use their domain for DNS lookups ...
> >This is a simple way, go here and run a scan: > >http://scan.sygatetech.com/stealthscan.html > > > > > HA! Remember I'm trying to diagnose http not working, so I can't goto > that page! What I would say is that I don't think this is a firewall > issue since I can manually telnet to port 80 of the IP address of a > webserver - it seems more like an application problem -oops sorry ... braincells don't work as well as they used to ;) > do web clients do their DNS differently? Don't know enough to answer that question. >> what does # netstat -nr tell you ? >> > shows two routes: > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > > I think the second entry there is definitely correct as this is the > gateway for my other Linux machine (where I'm typing this e-mail). [...] > >Is your hosts file setup ? can this box resolv itself ? > /etc/hosts looks just like this: > 127.0.0.1 io localhost > I can ping 'io' and it pings localhost, so that's ok. > I ran an strace on "telnet www.yahoo.com 80" and that showed telnet > opening /etc/host.conf and reading the order line (which is > "hosts,bind") - and sure enough it has a look in my hosts file then > tries the lookup: > open("/var/nis/NIS_COLD_START", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > open("/var/nis/NIS_COLD_START", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > uname({sys="Linux", node="io", ...}) = 0 see how its looking at io > gettimeofday({1145124365, 54517}, NULL) = 0 > socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3 > connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), > sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.0.1")}, 28) = 0 then at 192.168.0.1 > fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) > fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 > gettimeofday({1145124365, 54641}, NULL) = 0 > poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT, revents=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1 > send(3, "\255\310\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3www\5yahoo\3com\0\0\1\0\1"..., > 31, 0) = 31 > poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 5000) = 1 > ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [47]) = 0 > recvfrom(3, > "\255\310\201\0\0\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\3www\5yahoo\3com\0\0\1\0"..., 1024, 0, > {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), > sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.0.1")}, [16]) = 47 > close(3) = 0 > fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0 > mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, > 0) = 0xb7fe4000 > write(1, "Trying 1.0.0.0...\r\n", 19Trying 1.0.0.0... > ) = 19 > socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3 > setsockopt(3, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [16], 4) = 0 > connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80), > sin_addr=inet_addr("1.0.0.0")}, 16) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out) > write(2, "telnet: connect to address 1.0.0"..., 57telnet: connect to > address 1.0.0.0: Connection timed out this just verifies what you posted earliar. > I'm not clever enough to see what's immediately wrong from this... me either ;) take the io out of hosts and see what happens, Make it look like: 127.0.0.1 localhost or reconfigure your network interface with/without settings to test it. I have run out of ideas, hopefully someone can help ... -- RickS ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
