[gentoo-user] programs have problems connecting to any servers

[gentoo-user] programs have problems connecting to any servers

[karlos]

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hi,

I have posted this a few days ago and I know its quite newbie, but I would
like to use XChat and emerge .. :)
One of the symptoms is that I can't ping the gentoo servers
(heanet.ie<http://heanet.ie>for example) or connect to XChat servers.
I have tried to put in differnent nameserver settings into /etc/resolv.conf
(IPs that friends can use) and various different setting on the router
(DLink 504T),
like Port Forwarding and sobut with no success. What could the problem be,
if the Router and possibliy my machine are set up correctly?
Any Help is VERY much appreciated!

Thanks,

Karsten

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Re: [gentoo-user] programs have problems connecting to any servers

[Mark Knecht]

On 10/22/05, karlos <k.gebbert@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
>  I have posted this a few days ago and I know its quite newbie, but I would
> like to use XChat and emerge .. :)
>  One of the symptoms is that I can't ping the gentoo servers (heanet.ie for
> example) or connect to XChat servers.
>  I have tried to put in differnent nameserver settings into /etc/resolv.conf
> (IPs that friends can use) and various different setting on the router
> (DLink 504T),
>  like  Port Forwarding and sobut with no success. What could the problem be,
> if the Router and possibliy my machine are set up correctly?
>  Any Help is VERY much appreciated!
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Karsten
>

I guess you are writing here from another machine?

By 'Gentoo servers' do you mean the entries in make.conf? Can you ping
anything? Or is it just the servers you cannot get to?

If it's jsut the servers then here's the ones I'm using. They would
not be good long term solutions, but at least they work:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp
http://www.zentek-international.com/mirrors/gentoo/"

- Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] programs have problems connecting to any servers

[Dave Nebinger]

Karsten,

Diagnosing network issues without details is a little difficult, but here's a 
list to start with:

1.  Your dlink router is god, as far as your box is concerned.  It should be 
the only entry listed in /etc/resolv.conf as it is caching/forwarding dns on 
behalf of your network.

2.  Verify that you have your ip address set to be a child of the router.  It 
will either be set up with a 10.x.x.x or a 192.168.x.x addressing range.  If 
you're using dhcp, then your dhcp client should be pointed to the router to 
get it's ip address.

Once you have all of this setup verified, start by eliminating networking 
problems in your internal network - make sure you can ping the router.

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