I am not sure he's able to ping an ip address off-site, but the reports have been too fragmentary to really tell.
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unless I missed something, it seems pretty simple - Bob has demonstrated > that he is able to ping IPs from LAN behind his router. What he cannot do > is to ping URLs such as www.google.com. > > So, he needs to fix DNS forwarding at the router, so that the router can > properly hand DNS configuration to the clients. > > Tomas > > On Dec 15, 2017 6:51 PM, "Bob Vinisky" <b...@cherrycreekdaffodils.com> wrote: > > >> On Dec 15, 2017, at 6:25 PM, Ishak Micheil <isaa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I think we're trying to solve the easy path of egress traffic, which is >> good. >> Yes, indeed validate by simple nslookup www.google.com >> Or >> 8.8.8.8 >> >> >> Do I understand correctly that no ingress traffic too? How did u validate >> that? If the answer is yes, then it's frontier that should be able to help >> you. >> What is your frontier modem model? >> Once I know the model I can walk you possibly to the modem logs. >> > > I’m beginning to believe the pertinent questions revolve around knowing > what it was that caused this in the first place. > > The options I got today from the DSL tech at Frontier have me well on the > way to “fixing” this issue - - I am becoming more interested in the cause. > > I’m not much more than moderately adept at networking in general, but I do > know events like I’ve been experiencing are not normal and, in many ways, > almost impossible to happen - - but they did. So logic tells me something > had to have caused this. > > Soon as I can fix up this router issue, I believe the issue will clear, > giving more time to figure out why and how. > > Thanks to all for the help > > Bob > > ------- > 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
