From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 17 11:25:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7015516A41F for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:25:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F81E43D46 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:25:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7HBPGLr002485; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:25:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <43031EAF.4050306@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:25:35 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050815 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Premal Mishra References: <2211edca0508170141c9a60f8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2211edca0508170141c9a60f8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1029/Wed Aug 17 05:01:16 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot connect to internet X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:25:17 -0000 Premal Mishra wrote: > Hi, > > New to FreeBSD, Windows Backround . > > I connect to the internet via a LAN connection to my ISP. > > Have successfully installed my LAN Card and its up n running(Can see > the Device status 'UP' and Link status 'Active' on runniong ifconfig). > > I have set the ip of the interface, gateway address and DNS Server names also. > > default route is also set appropriately in /etc/rc.conf. > > I can ping the Gateway IP but not the DNS server IP. > > What may be the problem? Maybe there is a firewall between you and the DNS server, or the DNS server is set to not return pings? Can you traceroute to your DNS server, and post the results? Also - posting your ifconfig -a information would be helpful. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------