[PLUG] Browser Blues - Resolved

[William A Morita]

Carla, Michael 

After DSL modem power cycle and Linux box reboot:
Tried Firefox on yahoo.com, it hung multiple times.
Tried the w3m with the "-4" option on yahoo.com.  It worked.
Tried w3m without the "-4" option on yahoo.com.  It worked.
Tried Konquorer on yahoo.com.  It worked.
Switched back to the Firefox window, tried yahoo.com again, it hung.
Restarted Firefox on yahoo.com.  It worked.

Will someone explain what just happened here?
I suspect browsers were in IP6 mode(?), if so how could this happen?
All my connections (I think) are IP4.

Thank you Carla and Michael for you help

- Bill Morita 

wamorita at hevanet.com 


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From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Carla Schroder
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:37 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Browser Blues - Continued

On Friday 17 March 2006 18:09, William A Morita wrote:
> I have an Actiontec GT701-WT DSL Modem/Router with Qwest DSL service.
>
> I tried power cycling the DSL Modem/Router.  No Help.
>
> I tried plugging the network cable into the second network interface. 
> The idea being that a new MAC address would force the DHCP to generate 
> a new IP.
> New IP address, but this did not change the problem, so it is likely 
> not the DHCP.
>
> I am out of things to try,
>
> I am open to suggestions
>
> - Bill Morita
>
> wamorita at hevanet.com

This is my basic troubleshoot-DSL recipe:

1. power-cycle DSL modem
2. reboot PC

That cures most DSL silliness. If that doesn't work, did you test DNS like
Mike Neal suggested?  Or the IPv4/6 test that Michael M. said? What does
your /etc/resolv.conf say? Maybe you have some leftover static entries that
don't work anymore?

To get a new DHCP lease, just run 'dhclient' or whatever DHCP client FC
uses. 

You really don't need to guess, run Ethereal and you'll see exactly what is
happening. 
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