active network connection stops working...

[Jim]

On 07/24/2009 04:35 PM, charles zeitler wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Rick Sewill<rsewill at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> You indicated there is no DNS resolution?
>> What is in your /etc/resolv.conf file please?
>>
>>      
> it is currently blank.
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>> Can you ping an IP address if you do not use DNS resolution?
>>
>> Can you ping www.google.com?
>> Can you ping 209.85.225.99?
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> i successfully pinged yahoo at 69.147.76.15
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>    
>> Am I correct in assuming you have never been able to surf the Internet
>> through this active network connection?  My previous comments assumed
>> you could surf the Internet, but your connection eventually failed.
>>      
> my connection worked initially, and for some time, then suddenly dns stopped
> working.
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see if vou can ping linuxtoday.com, if it's a DNS problem you won't be 
able to connect to server.
Fedora is also having a IPV6 problem, it's looking for IPV6 instead of IPV4.