Re: Lost internet connection after upgrade

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:57:26PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:26:04 -0700
> Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Back again...with a different problem. Apt-get this afternoon updated the
> > > dhcp client package on my Sid installation and now I have lost my internet
> > > connection. The boot shows it is making the proper connection to my cable
> > > modem, but neither Firefox nor my email client connects. Both give me errors.
> > > Installed now is dhcp3 3.0.5-1
> > > Everyting **seems** to be good on boot: this is the relevent extract from the
> > > boot log:
> >
> > well you're getting ip. what is the output of
> >
> > ifconfig eth0
>
> sudo ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:F1:90:91:EF
> inet addr:192.168.1.8 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f1ff:fe90:91ef/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:5265 (5.1 KiB) TX bytes:2947 (2.8 KiB)
>
> ping www.google.ca
> connect: Network is unreachable
>

okay, how about the output of

route

>
>
>
> >
> > what is the contents of /etc/resolv.conf
> >
>
> nameserver 192.168.1.1 ( I run a router before the cable modem )

maybe try putting in a known nameserver to see if you're getting out, but I bet you're not...

>
> Well if you reboot you may be in the same boat :)

that's the problem with sid... you don't always get those sweet triple digit uptimes. But I try not to reboot unless there's a new kernel...

A

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