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I am getting network problems with my n800 on the wireless network at work, problems I don't have at home. The n800 is connected to the network and I can ping other machines on the network. But I cannot see anything on the internet when I use names instead of addresses.

I have no problems with my PC which is connected to the same network wired.

I have never fiddled with network settings on the n800, so would appreciate any suggestions where to look. The outupts of ifconfig are shown below.

PC:
.../home/stewart/tmp $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:A0:C4:07:AD
inet addr:192.168.254.125 Bcast:192.168.254.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21a:a0ff:fec4:7ad/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:23643540 errors:184302 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:20
TX packets:12181712 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:7818872 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:992541291 (946.5 MB) TX bytes:921622656 (878.9 MB)
Interrupt:16

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:59708 (58.3 KB) TX bytes:59708 (58.3 KB)

.../home/stewart/tmp $ ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.167.147) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from py-in-f147.google.com (64.233.167.147): icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=572 ms
64 bytes from py-in-f147.google.com (64.233.167.147): icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=177 ms
n800:
/home/user # ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:22459 (21.9 KiB) TX bytes:22459 (21.9 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:4F:9E:91:EF
inet addr:192.168.254.132 Bcast:192.168.254.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6778 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3218 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3232185 (3.0 MiB) TX bytes:901461 (880.3 KiB)

/home/user # ping www.google.com
ping: www.google.com: Host name lookup failure
/home/user # ping 64.233.167.147
PING 64.233.167.147 (64.233.167.147): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.167.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=192.5 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=196.4 ms
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#2
Try this:
sudo gainroot
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop
ping google



other idea:
sudo gainroot
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq force-reload
ping google
 
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#3
Originally Posted by free View Post
Try this:
sudo gainroot
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop
ping google
Worked! Many thanks.

Now to spend the rest of today finding out what the avahi-daemon does.
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#4
This avahi is the devil!
Creates problem on my linux pc, on my n800.

Ah yes, I forgot to say, it comes from apple, maybe that's why


The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon implementing Apple's ZeroConf architecture (also known as "Rendezvous" or "Bonjour").
For me, that will be aurevoir thank you..
 
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The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon implementing Apple's ZeroConf architecture (also known as "Rendezvous" or "Bonjour").
All those words, and still no meaning!

I see that it was installed as part of Canola. Do you know if it is necessary, or can I banish it forever?
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#6
Well it worked until the MS extend and embrace... followed by Apples "like hell you will" then Balmy said "wanna bet" then a penguin muttered something about standards and both of them screamed "shutup"... that's the latest I've heard on the zeroconf/avahi/rendevous/bonjour/network configuration for people who can't do nothing (ala dhcp)
 
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#7
http://avahi.org/wiki/Avah4users#Sof...kinguseofAvahi

Yes, Canola is in.

If you want avahi to not start (but still keep it installed)
Modify /etc/default/avahi-deamon, change 1 to 0


Well, it should work and it should be very nice, kind of plug and play. You simply need to understand a bit how it works.
It has also been integrated in a lot of Linux distributions.
You need that a host on the network is listening on multicast addresses. I have linux pc but I have removed it, I'll give it a shot by curiosity and report in this thread. Should also work with mac and windows remote hosts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)
 
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