[Nottingham] Network question - google unreachable?!

[Peter Chang]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, vanschoo at speakeasy.net wrote:
[can't get google]

Your problem sounds very strange indeed. How are you connecting to the 
internet?

I think you should check that your dns is working:

$ host www.google.co.uk

gives me

www.google.co.uk is an alias for www.google.com.
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com has address 64.233.183.104
www.l.google.com has address 64.233.183.99
www.l.google.com has address 64.233.183.103
www.l.google.com has address 64.233.183.147


then
$ traceroute www.google.co.uk
  1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  1.508 ms  1.362 ms  1.325 ms
  2  x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x)  13.159 ms  13.128 ms  21.078 ms
  3  x.x.x.x (x.x.x.x)  21.044 ms  20.948 ms  24.864 ms
  4  x.inet.ntl.com (x.x.x.x)  24.829 ms  29.776 ms  29.740 ms
  5  nth-bb-b-so-020-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.173)  38.679 ms  41.628 ms 
41.597 ms
  6  tele-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.184.2)  49.538 ms  10.872 ms 
20.802 ms
  7  212.250.14.66 (212.250.14.66)  20.769 ms  15.913 ms  15.863 ms
  8  72.14.238.244 (72.14.238.244)  24.804 ms  24.771 ms  24.732 ms
  9  209.85.248.80 (209.85.248.80)  36.687 ms 72.14.233.63 (72.14.233.63) 
44.621 ms  45.582 ms
10  64.233.175.246 (64.233.175.246)  83.508 ms 209.85.248.79 
(209.85.248.79)  68.446 ms 64.233.175.246 (64.233.175.246)  38.888 ms
11  * 72.14.233.79 (72.14.233.79)  57.788 ms 72.14.233.77 (72.14.233.77) 
57.757 ms
12  209.85.249.129 (209.85.249.129)  67.676 ms * 216.239.43.30 
(216.239.43.30)  30.944 ms
13  nf-in-f99.google.com (64.233.183.99)  30.866 ms  37.809 ms  38.767 ms

[where I've elided some IP addresses and hostnames]

Does firefox work when you use the IP address above?
Does safari work?

hth,
  Peter


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