[PLUG] Network kaput

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 22:46:14 -0800
Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> dijo:

>127.anything is going to be localhost. That is, some service on the
>same computer is doing DNS resolution for you.
>
>You problem is either routing or DNS resolution.
>
>Try pinging 4.2.2.2 and google.com.  If you can ping the numeric
>address but not the domainname, then your problem is DNS. If you can't
>ping either one, then your problem is routing.

I can't ping either, and I get 'operation not permitted,' not just
'unreachable' or such. I assume this means that the problem is routing.

Not that I know anything at all about routing, but wouldn't that be
something that the VPN is involved with? I smell a problem with Private
Internet Access.