Network is unreachable on some websites

alnexus · 2022-03-14 23:38:43

Ocasionally my Arch Linux install stops connecting to some websites, like StackOverflow or Reddit and almost anything else. Only some work, like Spotify, Notion (notion.so), WhatsApp Web (web.whatsapp). Most other don't though, even the Firefox addon search doesn't. When I try pinging something in the terminal it says "Network is unreachable" for the websites that don't load. archlinux.org works but not reddit.com. I have no idea what's causing this, though there was one time where I pressed SUPER+F to enable fullscreen on bspwm and (probably just a coincidence) stackoverflow stopped loading.

I have no idea what network stuff I'm using, though it's probably only NMCLI and I uninstalled my firewall (firewalld) to test if it'd work. On Firefox the websites don't load even with --safe-mode and neither on the terminal. If I need to provide more networking info, I'll do so. I just don't know what info to put here.

BrianDMS · 2022-03-15 00:42:34

Do you use a specific desktop environment that does network configuration for you or do you use a window manager and download and configure everything manually? Did you take a look at the optional dependencies of network manager? Maybe you have something non-standard installed that requires further configuration and causes breakage, I only have polkit, iptables and bluez.

I know that installing dhcpcd along with network manager can cause some issues, since network manager comes with its own dhcp client and having 2 is a bad idea. Also, did you exclude the possibility of your router not working properly, your computer having some hardware switch, rfkill blocking connections? If it's none of those issues then sadly I can't help much more, hopefully someone else can.

BrianDMS · 2022-03-15 00:57:25

Also, are you sure you have the network properly configured as described on the network configuration arch wiki page? Including /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts etc.? You might want to take a look at network manager configuration page, specifically the dns management part: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … management. Your DNS might be an issue here if only some websites don't want to load, change it and see what happens.

seth · 2022-03-15 06:55:09

I have no idea what network stuff I'm using

How did you install archlinux?

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f

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#1 2022-03-14 23:38:43

Network is unreachable on some websites

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