Re: Fedora Core 2 - Can't get mail, download or browse web pages

[Lane Inman <lanei etm pdx edu>]

Thank you very much Peter;
 Yes, I have reset mozilla a number of times (even rebooted - although 
I shouldn't have to).  Yes:
I can use wget http://firestuff.org/projects/ecncheck-0.9.6.tar.bz2 and 
it works;
mozilla does not work, neither does lynx.

-Lane
Peter Eddy wrote:

> By the way Mozilla can get confused and be unable to resolve host 
> names if your network settings change while it's running. If you can 
> resolve host names and get stuff with wget but not mozilla (which is 
> what I think you're saying) then you may just need to restart mozilla. 
> Make sure that it's really shutdown too, "pkill -9 mozilla" to be sure.
>
> Peter
>
> Lane Inman wrote:
>
> > Thank you Jack;
> >  Could you please explain what I am doing with ecn_check... 
> > Interestingly, I used wget with this (correcting to 
> > http://firestuff.org/projects/ecncheck-0.9.6.tar.bz2) and it worked, 
> > but I can't see it through the web.
> >
> > Second Question: Is there a particular reason this is not packaged 
> > with fedora if it is of help???
> >
> > -Lane Inman
> > Ph. D. Candidate
> > Systems Science - ETM
> > Portland State University
> >
> > Jack Bowling wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:05:33PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > > > Am Fr, den 21.05.2004 schrieb Lane Inman um 19:33:
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > > > I have read this thread and am having similar problems;
> > > > >   I however am connecting directly to a hub which is connected to 
> > > > > DSL; and I have a fedora core 1 machine on the same network which 
> > > > > is working fine.    Additionally, I can ssh, scp and amule with no 
> > > > > problems it just seems like the web.
> > > > >
> > > > > Lane Inman
> > > > >     
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > You can't reach any website or just failing some certain addresses?
> > > >
> > > > You did try to deactivate ECN without success?
> > > >   
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ecncheck is a useful tool for this purpose:
> > >
> > > http://firestuff.org/projects/ecncheck-0.9.6.ta.bz2
> > >
> > >