Subj : Linux Distros and BBBS?
To : Mark Lewis
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Thu Nov 22 2018 09:55 am
Hello mark,
> On 2018 Nov 21 15:01:14, you wrote to me:
>> it made no difference to the connection issue of being able to make
>> outbound connections. I was able to connect and ping the router. Oddly
>> I was also able to ping the Google's DNS servers ok. But was unable to
>> connect or ping Google itself OR anywhere else.
>if you're still playing with this problem, i'm curious what traceroute says...
> ping is only basically helpful... traceroute can point to where the breakage
> is...
When I get a chance I will wipe Mint off the problem PC and do a fresh install
again of Ubuntu to do further testing. It might be a couple three days yet.
Currently from this PC a traceroute of www.google.com is 8 hops averaging
about 11ms per hop.
