[Techtalk] Can't ping DNS

[PCasper]

Terri Oda wrote:

>Can you ping your gateway? (By IP 207.189.172.98 according to your files, so
>I hope that's the right address. :) )
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Oops, I meant to mention that. Yes, I can successfully ping my gateway.

>I'm guessing this is a no since you couldn't ping anything other than
>yourself, but it's a handy thing to know explicitly.
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>I labelled the lines to make this easer to say...
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>[1] and [5] are the ones you need for routing through your modem, while [2]
>and [3] shouldn't make any difference.  I don't know what line [4] is up to,
>but I suspect it's no good, since it's unecessary for modem routing.  Can
>you get rid of this line and try again?
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I've tried removing that line by removing both default routes, but have 
been unable to re-create line [5] correctly.... it winds up recreating 
[4] instead. Will reboot again and try it out this evening.


> Terri
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