Ubuntu cannot access internet, LAN is fine

Posted by Kevin Southworth on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Kevin Southworth
Published on 2011-08-01T16:48:52Z Indexed on 2013/07/01 10:23 UTC
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I have an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server that is directly connected to our Comcast Business Gateway modem and I have configured it with 1 of our 5 allotted Static IPs. My other machines on our LAN can connect to this server (via ssh, web, ping, etc.) but I cannot access this server from outside our network, and this machine cannot get out to the internet either (ping google.com fails with unknown host).

Here is my /etc/networking/interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 173.162.54.19
    netmask 255.255.255.248
    broadcast 173.162.54.23
    gateway 173.162.54.22

and my /etc/resolv.conf:

nameserver 68.87.77.130
nameserver 68.87.72.130

output from sudo route -n:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
173.162.54.16   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.248 U     0      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         173.162.54.22   0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 eth0

I have a Windows 2008 machine with an almost identical Static IP, static DNS setup and it works correctly, can access it within the LAN and also from public internet, the Windows machine and the Ubuntu machine are both directly connected to the Comcast Business Gateway.

I have tried rebooting Ubuntu, rebooting my Comcast modem, but nothing seems to make it work. I'm an Ubuntu noob, is there some other config I need to apply to make this work?

UPDATE: Yes I am able to ping my default gateway 173.162.54.22

output of iptables --list -n:

Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target     prot opt source               destination
ufw-before-input  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
ufw-after-input  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target     prot opt source               destination
ufw-before-forward  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
ufw-after-forward  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
ufw-before-output  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
ufw-after-output  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-after-forward (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
LOG        all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           limit: avg 3/min burst 10 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `[UFW BLOCK FORWARD]: '
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-after-input (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
RETURN     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:137
RETURN     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:138
RETURN     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:139
RETURN     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:445
RETURN     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:67
RETURN     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:68
LOG        all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           limit: avg 3/min burst 10 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `[UFW BLOCK INPUT]: '
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-after-output (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-before-forward (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
ufw-user-forward  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-before-input (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED
DROP       all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           ctstate INVALID
ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           icmp type 3
ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           icmp type 4
ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           icmp type 11
ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           icmp type 12
ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           icmp type 8
ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp spt:67 dpt:68
ufw-not-local  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT     all  --  224.0.0.0/4          0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            224.0.0.0/4
ufw-user-input  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-before-output (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ufw-user-output  all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-not-local (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           ADDRTYPE match dst-type LOCAL
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           ADDRTYPE match dst-type MULTICAST
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           ADDRTYPE match dst-type BROADCAST
LOG        all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           limit: avg 3/min burst 10 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `[UFW BLOCK NOT-TO-ME]: '
DROP       all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-user-forward (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-user-input (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:80
ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:80
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:22
ACCEPT     udp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:22
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

Chain ufw-user-output (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
RETURN     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

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