[CentOS 4.8] nslookup resolves domains to IPs, but I can't get a response to pings to external servers
- by Beco
I have a fresh install of CentOS 4.8 running on an internal development server. I haven't done anything to it besides setting up sudoers and SSH. I can SSH into the server and from there resolve domains to IPs and ping internal servers, but for some reason I don't get any response from pinging external servers.
The software firewall is disabled, and the problem is present with both static and DHCP-assigned network configurations. The network domain controller is a Windows Server 2003 box.
$ nslookup google.com
Server: 10.254.2.5
Address: 10.254.2.5#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.47.147
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.47.99
<etc...>
10.254.2.5 is the Win2K3 server.
$ ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.47.106) 56(84) bytes of data.
It just hangs here indefinitely.
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search <...snip...>.local
nameserver 10.254.2.5
nameserver 10.254.2.124
10.254.2.124 is the backup DC server, which is currently off and tombstoned by this point. The snipped section is our company name.
# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <snip>
inet addr:10.254.2.101 Bcast:10.254.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: <snip>/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:80066 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4421 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7810133 (7.4 MiB) TX bytes:590550 (576.7 KiB)
Interrupt:225 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:8104 (7.9 KiB) TX bytes:8104 (7.9 KiB)
# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.254.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 10.254.2.5 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
And, for good measure, a snapshot of the current ethernet config via the system-config-network GUI.
Edit: I don't yet have enough rep to post images, so here's a link. Sorry!
system-config-network snapshot
I'm pretty green when it comes to setting up *nix dev servers and network configuration in general, so please let me know if I've left out critical information, or posted information I shouldn't have posted.
Thanks!