From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 09:04:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34CB1065672 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:04:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [206.117.18.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A14D68FC28 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:04:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.196] (pool-71-109-162-173.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.109.162.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7K94BNV013836 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Message-Id: <34701C68-22F3-40A9-8031-F9EA21D015AD@lafn.org> From: Doug Hardie To: Warren Liddell In-Reply-To: <200808200854.m7K8skoh032455@mail8.tpg.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:04:10 -0700 References: <200808200854.m7K8skoh032455@mail8.tpg.com.au> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.92.1, clamav-milter version 0.92.1 on zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loss of Internet Contivity X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:04:12 -0000 On Aug 20, 2008, at 01:54, Warren Liddell wrote: > Im not sure what has happend, but after my last portupgrade i seem > to have lost internet contivity on the network .. ic an get a IP > address from the router, can ping the router no worries, all other > machine son the network are able to use the internet, just mine > seems to have lost it, attached is a brief paste of ifconfig + ping > to router .. anyone got thoughts//suggestions ? The attachment shows that DNS is unable to find the IP address. This appears to be a DNS resolver issue, not a network issue. Check /etc/ resolv.conf and make sure its correct. Then check the indicated DNS servers using dig.