[Ilugc] BSNL Broadband
- From: manokaran@xxxxxxxxx (Mano)
- Date: Sun Feb 4 09:47:12 2007
On 2/1/07, S. Theyagarajan <taggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi all,
I use bsnl broadband connection.And yesterday tried connecting
my
laptop to the internet.I have set the dhcp and yet unable to connect to
the internet.I do get IP assigned with 192.168.1.4 and the DNS as
192.168.1.1 .but still iam unable to ping any server outside .
What could be the problem ?
That the laptop was able to get an Ip address from your router/modem means
that the link between your laptop and the router is ok. Just in case your
laptop got an IP address leased for a week and your router started
malfucntioning later, ping 192.168.1.1 . If there are no dropped packets
then you can be sure there is no problem with that link.
Then try pinging 61.1.96.69 - BSNL's DNS IP. If this also works then the
issue is most probably with name resolution. Try pinging www.google.com. If
you get a response then even the name resolution works - and you dont have a
problem :-0 . If you get a host not found error then it is a problem with
name resolution only. Set your name server IP to the above and try.
If you are able to ping 192.168.1.1 but get a 'netwrok unreachable' error
when you ping 61.1.96.69 then the default gateway is not configured. Check
the output of route -n to see if there is a line like the following:
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
(eth1 for me - yours could be different)
If you dont have the above then add a default route thus (as root):
route add default gateway 192.168.1.1 eth1
I saw someone suggest using OpenDNS as the name server. It's relatively fast
but if you have issues about your privacy then you should'nt use it. Its bad
enough google (and the other serach services) keeps a 'database of your
intentions over time' but if you also want to allow someone to keep a
database of every website you visited then you can expect a 'I know what you
did last summer' kind of experience :-)
regards,
mano
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