[ILUG] Strange Network Problem

[Conor Wynne]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 21:57, Robert Synnott wrote:
> I'm having a strange network problem since I updated my distribution
> (to Mandrake 10.1 x86_64). Most applications (Mozilla, Firefox, all
> KDE applications) seem to be able to access the internet fine, but
> console applications, and a few graphical applications (gaim) can't;
> they seem to take about a minute to resolve the host-name. I have IPV6
> off. Any ideas?

Are you going through a proxy?
If so, then try 

export http_proxy="ipaddress:port"
export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy

Then try again.

Or maybe the default route is set incorrectly? (unlikely though)
Just guessing as I need more info. 

> Rob.
> -- 
> Irish Linux Users' Group
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Conor Wynne
Dublin,
Irlande.

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