Internet: browsers fails to connect to SOME sites, not all, for no reason.

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:22:17 -0500
Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Can you clarify?  Is it definitely a DNS issue (e.g. Address Not Found.
>  Firefox can't find the server at ... in Firefox).  Is it 75% of URLs
> consistently not found, or random URLs popping in and out?

The former. The sites which I can't connect to, I can never connect to.
And vice versa, the sites which do work, always work.

> sudo apt-get install --reinstall netbase

Done. No change.

> Also, how exactly is your connectivity set up?

Simplest setup: a single desktop computer, connected using my ISP's
cable modem, no other hardware, no firewall no nothing. The
computer connects to the internet automatically: the modem gives it its
IP thanks to DHCP magic.

> There shouldn't be user-specific settings, unless of course you're using
> NetworkManager, in which case you should disable it if at all possible.

Yeah I did read a while back that nm was troublesome, so I had it
disabled already.

--
Vince