FW: [SunHELP] SunNewbie...still can't access internet after install of OS...

[Jim Pennino]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:32:12AM -0500, Marvin Cummings wrote:
> I meant to write /etc/hostname.hme0.
> When I say that there some external resources I'm unable to ping I mean
> that if I attempt to ping www.msn.com, or it's IP, I get "no answer from
> msn.com" whereas if I ping either www.yahoo.com or 216.109.125.72, which
> is its IP, I get www.yahoo.com is alive. Some resources I can ping and
> some I cannot. 
> I am able to perform nslookup on external resources. For example
> nslookup on www.whitehouse.gov returns: 
> Server: mydnsserver.mydomain.com 
> Address: 192.168.1.5 
> 
> Non-authoritative answer: 
> Name: a1289.g.akamai.net 
> Addresses: 12.129.72.223, 12.129.72.216 
> Aliases: www.whitehouse.gov, whitehouse.gov.edgesuite.net 
> 
> So I'm assuming this works. 
> 

A lot of sites, www.msn.com among them, block pings.

If nslookup works, you're probably OK.

If you can ping anything external, you're probably OK.

Now, fire up a web browser and see if you can see www.msn.com.

-- 
Jim Pennino