Hi All
I had written months back that I couldn't get onto most google
sites, like search, maps, but I could connect to drive, gmail and
others. since many sites use google I'd get a timed out error. I
checked w/ google support, cybermesa, every forum I could find.
After many efforts I checked /etc/hosts (should have sooner but
there are so many config files that none of the forums even
mentioned it.) I run a couple virtual machines, one being FreeBsd,
and could connect to all google on those. Then that stopped too.
Looking in /etc/hosts I found:
$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 ubuntu-laptop localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 ubuntu-laptop localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.1.1 ubuntu-laptop
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
# Inside /etc/hosts on your Host
#192.168.56.101 BrianFreeBSD.home.local www.google.com
anyother.fakesite.com
and found the last line-very weird! I commented it out and
everything is back to normal. I'm wondering how that entry ever made
it into the file though?
Best to all the Gluggers!
Brian
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