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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Emerge Net Connect Error
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:22:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701121722.32356.uwix@iway.na> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72a0edfd0701120645m4a7f6a7dqbecfa4ed73aa7ac7@mail.gmail.com>

On 12 January 2007 16:45, Ryan Crisman wrote:
> I do a ping distfiles.gentoo.org
> ping: unknown host distfiles.gentoo.org
>
> Than i try and ping its ip and i get
> connect: network is unreachable
>
> Pinging www.Google.com:
> connect: network is unreachable
>
> contents of resolv.conf
> domain localdomain
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
>
> But as i said before I am able to browser the web in Firefox.

And you are writing your email also in your browser, right?

Taking all the above into account, the conclusion is:

1. Your browser is configured to use a proxy, and the proxy server is given by 
IP address.
2. Your box lacks a default route.

It's a logical AND between 1. and 2. ;-)

Uwe

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-12 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-12 14:10 [gentoo-user] Portage Emerge Net Connect Error Ryan Crisman
2007-01-12 14:25 ` PaulNM
2007-01-12 14:45   ` Ryan Crisman
2007-01-12 14:52     ` Ryan Crisman
2007-01-12 14:53     ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2007-01-12 15:22     ` Uwe Thiem [this message]
2007-01-12 14:29 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)

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