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unixguru

Member

Registered: 2006-05-02

Posts: 85

internet stopped working after ip change

I am connected to internet through cable and yesterday i shifted over to a new scheme and got new settings which are as follows

Physical Address: 00-0B-2B-00-94-B6
IP Address: 125.99.213.200
Subnet Mask: 255.255.240.0
Default Gateway: 125.99.208.1
DNS Servers: 202.88.152.5

The previous settings were:

Physical Address: 00-0B-2B-00-94-B6
IP Address: 202.88.153.226
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 202.88.153.1
DNS Servers: 202.88.152.5

I made the corresponding changes in rc.conf and i am able to ping both gateway and dns address but i am not able to connect to internet. If ping any site i get the unknown host error. btw, i got my broadcast address from http://pigtail.net/LRP/broadcast.html. My isp is not very helpful and they don't even know what is wrong so the board is my only resort.

Last edited by unixguru (2007-04-23 13:19:33)

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: internet stopped working after ip change

Can you ping external IP addresses e.g. 64.233.183.99 (Google). If so, your DNS needs reconfiguring - check /etc/resolv.conf. However, if you can't ping anything apart from the given gateway and DNS server, it's an ISP issue IMO. You'll just have to keep hounding them