[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Further to PPP to ISP saga -
>
> once the PPP connection is up netstat -nr gives (this is copied by hand so
> excuse formatting) ...
>
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Win irtt Iface
>
> 195.92.66.87 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0 0 ppp0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 195.92.66.87 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 ppp0
>
> 195.92.66.87 is the dynamically assigned IP address for the far end
> of the PPP link.
>
> To reiterate the problem I only get ping responses from the IP address
> at the far end of the connection (in this case 195.92.66.87) .
>
> My box is happy to send ping packets to anything else but claims 100%
> packet loss for returned packets ( despite fact that my modem led
> seems to indicate incoming packets).
>
Are you pinging IP addresses or domain names? If the latter, try IP
addresses. If that works, it's DNS that's not right.
