[Bulk] Re: basic network question

eric c eric at newmag.org
Thu Oct 4 08:32:19 EDT 2007


Dan Ritter wrote:
> If your machine is having problems reaching one website, and is
> fine for everything else, your ISP does not care.
> 
> If you are the only person having problems reaching a website,
> the website probably does not care much.
> 
> That said, the output of these commands may be useful.
> 
> ifconfig -a
> route -n
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
> dig myplaysite.com
> ping -c 10 myplaysite.com
> traceroute myplaysite.com
> wget myplaysite.com
> 
> -dsr-
> 

good advice.  i shall play with these.  many thanks.

- eric c.

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