Hate to give up

[John Heinen]

Shannon McMackin wrote:
> On 06/01/2009 05:04 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> John Heinen wrote:
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>>> NoOp wrote:
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>>>> On 06/01/2009 12:50 PM, John Heinen wrote:
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>>>>> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
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>>>>>> 2009/6/1 John Heinen<hensandpat at earthlink.net>:
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>>>>>>> NoOp wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Answer the other questions in the thread, otherwise you are simply
>>>>>>>> continuing wasting people's time John.
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>>>>>>> Sorry, it seems to me that I did. ......the second suggestion........
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Maybe I'm blind but I can't see anywhere an answer to this question,
>>>>>> for example:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What happens if you type the following in a terminal?
>>>>>> ping yahoo.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>>>>>
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>>>>> unknown host yahoo.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From Dotan in this thread:
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>>>> ====
>>>> Post the output of this command:
>>>> $ ping 74.125.67.100
>>>>
>>>> This will check your (and google's) internet connection, without
>>>> regard to DNS or Firefox.
>>>> ====
>>>>
>>>> Also:
>>>> $ ping 209.85.171.100
>>>>
>>>> Both are google.com hosts.
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>> $ ping 74.125.57.100
>>> 64 bytes from 74.125.67.100 56(84)bytes of data
>>> 64 bytes from 74.125.57 100 1cmp seq 1 ttl=51 time 180 ms
>>> and so on and on
>>>
>>> $ping 209.85.171.100
>>> 64 bytes from 209.85.171.100 1cmp seq =1 ttl=24 time =199ms and so on and on
>>>
>>> it seems to me that the internet connection with my provider is working
>>> just fine and that the problem lies with firefox. John
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>      Now if you would again in a terminal type:
>>
>> $ ping yahoo.com
>>
>> and tell us what happened. I am wondering if there is no DNS ip given in
>> his computer.
>>
>>
>> Karl
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> Depending on how the router is giving out network addresses.  If John is 
> using static IPs, he'll have to define his DNS on his system as that of 
> his router which should in turn use the DNS of the provider or at least 
> populate with that.
>
> Using NM and DHCP, I'm getting my provider's DNS info from my router.
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Was advised to use dynamic no dns numbers are used/