3c905 with new kernels wont load certain web sites...

[Albert Lee]

I agree that it *may* still in fact be name resolution.  Recently I was
able to resolve hosts even when my ISP was having trouble with PPP
connections -- how?  I was using a cacheing nameserver on my Debian
system.  Hrmm.  Can you ping your name server?  Let's assume "yes" ...
then you should still re-check your hosts and resolv.conf files.  If you
can connect to IP addresses but not names, it's *definitely* a name
resolving issue!  (nslookup is your friend)

Now if everything else is in order ... it still sounds like a bona fide
networking setup problem rather than a driver problem ... ping etc. *does*
work, you say.  Some other stuff doesn't.  This can be an extremely
infuriating problem to solve, since there are so many little and simple
things that can go wrong.  Check your IP masquerading/forwarding/firewall 
settings, the associated kernel options, make sure your IP address(es) and
interfaces match up, and so on and so forth.  You may get a lot more help
in a more appropriate forum where people deal with higher level networking
stuff.

-Albert


On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Austen McDonald wrote:

> 	No, its not name resolution.  I can ping "metalab.unc.edu" and a
> lot of other sites work fine.  Also, I can get all sites to work when I
> use PPP w/ my modem.  That makes me think theres something wrong with the
> network card setup/driver.
> 
> 	AustenB
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Shon Martin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Austen:
> > 	My first thought is name resolution. Find out the ip address of
> > the metalab site, or others, and see if that works. If so, there is your
> > problem.
> > 	I had a prof here who once installed some shareware something or
> > another on a win95 machine. Wouldn't connect to very specific sites. Took
> > me ages to fix it. Turns out the shareware installed a hosts file, with
> > outdated addresses.
> > 	I'd check the /etc/resolv.conf file, /etc/hosts, and anything else
> > related to resolving. The long hanging usually tells me its a resolver
> > issue.
> > -Shon
> > 
> > On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Austen McDonald wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:13:01 -0400
> > > From: Austen McDonald <austen@admin1.coosa.tec.ga.us>
> > > To: linux-vortex-bug@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov
> > > Subject: 3c905 with new kernels wont load certain web sites...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	Strange problem:  I have a 3c905 (not B) and just installed Red Hat 6
> > > (kernel version 2.2.5 rel 15).  Im running the newest (stable) version
> > > of 3c59x (version 99Kb).  And for some reason my machine refuses to
> > > communicate with certain web sites (one of which is metalab.unc.edu just
> > > for an example).  It wont give me any errors just sit there in the
> > > browser or FTP session or whatever Im running.  Many other sites work
> > > fine but some just dont seem to work at all.
> > > 	I had this problem earlier with the same card when I tried to upgrade
> > > my kernel - my solution was just not to upgrade (that was from 2.0.34 to
> > > anything higher).  However, I blamed this functionality (unwisely) on
> > > the kernel being a development one.  Well, Im not going back now and
> > > would like to fix whatever problem this is.
> > > 	
> > > 	Its not a problem with my internet settings - PPP works fine.  It works
> > > fine in Win98. Ive tried flipping full duplex (both using the
> > > 3c90xcfg.exe and the full_duplex option) on and off but that didnt
> > > affect the problem.  Ive reinstalled the driver many times but that
> > > didnt work.  All Im running as daemons are network, xfs, gpm, lpd,
> > > syslog, and sound.
> > > 
> > > 	If anyone can help Id appreciate it...
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Austen "Danger Powers" McDonald
> > > austen@admin1.coosa.tec.ga.us
> > > stu9781@westga.edu
> > > 
> > > I'm only attending school until it becomes available on CD-ROM.
> > > 
> > > -Anonymous 6th grade student
> > > 
> > > Gather up your pity and turn it into ambition, now put your vehicle in
> > > drive
> > > and stop by my side.
> > > 
> > > -Coolio
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>