ping sites but can't browse?

gdirty · 2010-02-11 23:55:08

I was having this strange problem at a coffee shop recently. I can connect to their WPA2 network over wicd, but once I'm connected, no internet. I can ping www.google.com and get the IP, put that in chromium, but a search won't resolve the address. Strange enough, I can in fact get to the internet with IE 4 Linux.

Oh yeah, and their router has no user / pass for administration it if that helps...

pepeapepepe · 2010-02-11 23:58:44

I would think it sounds like your chromium configuration is broken. Did other browsers (w3m) worked?

Just Guessing

thestinger · 2010-02-12 00:01:19

chromium has a DNS cache and does DNS pre-fetching and it sounds like something broke

gdirty · 2010-02-12 00:58:40

interesting. Yeah I looked at the DNS pre-fetching, I think I disabled it and then still had problems. I didn't have ffox installed at the time... Oh and pacman was not working either, so when I tried to get that going, no dice.

fukawi2 · 2010-02-12 02:27:20

Possibly transparent proxy interception with restrictions on allowed user-agents?

Arch Linux

#1 2010-02-11 23:55:08

ping sites but can't browse?

#2 2010-02-11 23:58:44

Re: ping sites but can't browse?

#3 2010-02-12 00:01:19

Re: ping sites but can't browse?

#4 2010-02-12 00:58:40

Re: ping sites but can't browse?

#5 2010-02-12 02:27:20

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