From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 6 23:01:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C6416A4CE for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:01:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514C343D46 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:01:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B227062E1; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:01:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80204-04; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:01:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DEC962C3; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:01:43 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <413CEC56.5060606@makeworld.com> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:01:42 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040903) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Dusek References: <413CE5FA.8030005@uiowa.edu> In-Reply-To: <413CE5FA.8030005@uiowa.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange Internet Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 23:01:48 -0000 Jason Dusek wrote: > In certain places, I am unable to get on the internet even though I am > recognized by the DHCP server and assigned an IP address. In most cases, > I am not able to ping anything, but even when I can (for example at my > parents' house, which is serviced by MSN) my browser times out. What is > the name of this problem, and which section of the docs will help me to > fix it? > > _jason Well - assuming you are talking about FreeBSD, I'm not so sure it's a FreeBSD issue. If you can connect to the internet, and if you are running ipf/ipfw - then look at your ruleset. Other then that - call your ISP -- Best regards, Chris Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.