[kde-linux] how to troubleshoot browser - http

[brent]

Hi Laurie,

this sounds silly but (assuming you are using a router for connection) have 
you tried powering down your router and restarting.

I'm fairly new to Linux and I have a home network of 3 linux machines sharing 
a common internet connection through an ADSL router. The router has a DNS and 
DHCP server built-in and sometimes it fails in a similar way. I find that 
pinging machines on the local network will work, but pinging your ISP or 
Google etc fails. So I agree with Jan its likely to be a DNS failure - 
probably the quickest, simplest thing to do is hit the big switch.

You may also need to restart your client, 
My system is mandrake, as root from the command line I would type 
ifdown eth0
this stops the client.
Next I type,
ifup eth0 
this restarts the client.

So for example on a working system with the client stopped using 'ifdown eth0' 
if I should attempt to start a browser then I am able to reproduce your 
problem. 




good luck,
Brent



On Thursday 01 Dec 2005 07:39, Robert wrote:
> Hello
>
> All my browsers stopped working today: they cannot access any web site when
> I type http://a_asite.
> I verified that my connection works using host -a  or ping.
> I tried to go online with Konqueror and I get the same result: "Unknown
> Host. an error occured while loading http://www.google.com".
>
> There is something wrong in a component between kde and the http
> connection. Any idea of where to start to troubleshoot?
>
> thanks
> Laurie
>
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