Re: weirdest network problems of my ilfe [SOLVED]

From: Cameron Matheson (cameron.matheson_at_fjcomm.com)
Date: 09/16/05

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    Hey thanks for everyone's responses... i'm still not 100% sure what the
    problem ended up being, but this is what i did (this was thanks to some
    submissions on the list, #debian, and trial and error). The lowering of
    the MTU explanation made the most sense to me, but it didn't actually do
    anything differently. I messed around w/ many other settings and got
    ready to yell at my isp (but i really really hate talking to the
    customer support people). Anyway, someone recommended releasing my DHCP
    information and then getting another address. That didn't make a
    difference, but i figured since it was taking sooo long to tcptraceroute
    my way back to various places something had to be up w/ the DNS. My
    /etc/resolv.conf had the 192.168.0.1 and xx.xx.3.65 (i can't remember
    the number exactly, just the last two octets). I heard someone tell me
    some of those routers are pretty screwy so i deleted the line w/
    192.168.0.1 and tried tcptraceroute again... much faster this time, and
    then everything else worked too. Still not sure what exactly is up,
    because i had tried deleting that line before w/ no effect. But maybe
    it really was necessary to release my dhcp lease also (i don't
    understand why that would make a difference... could someone explain
    why? or am i just confused?). Anyway, it's nice that everything's
    working again.

    Cameron Matheson

    P.S. Yesterday i was trying to figure out why the windoze boxen would
    work when the linux boxen wouldn't (they also have 192.168.0.1 as one
    of their dns servers). The only thing i could think of is i thought at
    one time i had heard that windows boxen alternate which dns server they
    use every time they send out a request, whereas Linux tries to always
    use the primary. Is that plausible?

    cameron.matheson@flyingjcomm.com wrote:

    >Hi,
    >
    >Ok after installing the new router that came w/ my dsl i'm having the most
    >mind-boggling internet problems of my life. Here's some background on my
    >network:
    >
    >
    > +----Linux box
    > |----Linux laptop (wireless)
    >Wireless/Wired Router/Modem----+----Windows box #1
    > |----Windows laptop
    > +----Windows laptop (wireless)
    >
    >Ok, so first off... all of my family's windows boxes are working fine.
    >Everything is just normal. The linux boxen however, have problems.
    >Internet generally works (although some sites (slashdot, gmail, etc) won't
    >load in firefox (for some reason they will in links). I can't connect to
    >yahoo/jabber/msn/etc w/ gaim, but i can w/ centericq. I've been trying to
    >figure out all this for forever and so i tried to tcptraceroute my way to
    >messenger.hotmail.com as an experiment (on port 1863 or whatever it was).
    >It took a while, but the route was traced. The funny thing is that if i
    >start tracing the route, and then start up gaim, i connect just fine.
    >same goes for the sites that didn't load up in my browser... I can't
    >figure out why everything works on the windows, but not on my linux boxen.
    > the network stuff is all assigned by the router (dhcp). What should i
    >do?
    >
    >Thanks,
    >Cameron Matheson
    >
    >
    >
    > 

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