[nylug-talk] Re: Ubuntu Problem: No Longer Able to Make Certain Connections

[Kevin Mark]

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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:30:28PM -0400, James Keenan wrote:
> 
> On Sep 12, 2006, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> 
> >Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] Re: Ubuntu Problem: No Longer Able to Make
> >	Certain	Connections
> >To: NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
> >
> >On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, James Keenan wrote:
> >
> >>[Documents] 517 $ ip route list
> >>192.168.6.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.6.94
> >>default via 192.168.6.1 dev eth0
> >>[Documents] 518 $ traceroute nntp.perl.org
> >>bash: traceroute: command not found
> >>[Documents] 519 $ tracepath nntp.perl.org
> >>1:  192.168.6.94 (192.168.6.94)                            0.144ms
> >>pmtu 1500
> >>1:  no reply
> >What does 192.168.6.1 run?
> >
> 
> 
> Just getting back to this problem.  I'm afraid I didn't understand  
> what you meant by "192.168.6.1 run" in this context.
> 
> This problem has a number of different symptoms.  Not only can I no  
> longer use AIM; yesterday I discovered that I can't 'rsync' either.   
> And I can't get my system clock to synchronize with Internet clocks  
> via the Ubuntu Date and Time feature, either.
> 
> I was able to discuss this with one of the sysadmins late this  
> afternoon.  He, too, advised me to run:
>   iptables -L -v -n
> He showed me what he characterized as "normal" output when he ran it  
> on his Linux box -- and the output was much more detailed than mine.   
> But I didn't get a chance to discuss it further with him.  He could  
> rsync to the site to which I failed to rsync -- and that's a site I  
> had no problem rsynching to from home.
> 
> Any further diagnostic suggestions, ladies and gentlemen?  TIA
Hi Jim,
maybe see if the data is traveling through a different path by comparing
a  traceroute from his and your computer?
cheers,
Kev
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