[clue-tech] Inability to go to Google (and other websites) from Firefox and Qwest MSN DSL on Linux -SOLVED-

[David L. Anselmi]

Chris Hirsch wrote:
[...]
> His setup is Ubuntu 5, Qwest MSN DSL directly connected to an Actiontec
> router. When in Ubuntu he can do DNS lookups for google, can ping google
> but if you use Firefox it will just eventually time out. SOME websites work.
> 
> If you boot into Win2K and use Firefox (on a separate laptop) Google
> comes up perfectly. If you boot the laptop into FC4 and go to Google it
> has the same problem: Firefox will time out after a while.

A good way to troubleshoot these kinds of problems is to use a sniffer. 
  Can ping but can't http--what is the network doing that is different?

Windows works, Linux doesn't.  Again, what's the difference in the packets?

Although not guaranteed to find the problem, networked apps tend to fail 
on network behavior and ruling that out is a useful thing.  In your case 
it would have made the AAAA lookups visible (and even if not the issue 
you might have said "quit that!")

Dave