Why am I unable to reach local network computers, but able to browse the web?
- by Igor Zinov'yev
I have a weird problem. Today after turning my Ubuntu 9.10 PC on I can't connect to my local network, but I can use the Internet. We have a single Windows 2003 server machine that acts as a local main DNS server, DHCP server and a domain controller. Although it seems to give me the local IP address, I can not ping it, as well as any other machine on the net.
I have tried all of the below and it didn't help:
Rebooting;
Reconnecting to the network;
Forcing the dhclient to renew the IP address;
Deleting and creating new connection profiles;
Plugging my machine into another network outlet;
Maybe it has something to do with routing, because I have tampered with routing tables the day before, but the tables seem ok to me:
$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 vboxnet0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Our LAN uses a D-Link DI-604 router, and it looks to me as if I am connected to the network outside the router. I can not even access its administration page.
Please at least suggest what I can do to solve this.
P.S. What seems strangest to me is that I can access the PC in question from outside the network by opening a port on the router. I have managed to ssh to it from outside, but I still can't ping nothing on the inside.
P.P.S Today I tried reinstalling network-manager with --purge option, but it did no good. After that I created a new DCHP reservation for my PC in order to change my local IP, but that didn't change anything either. My PC is able to get a DHCP offer, but then it's unable to connect to any local computers. I am desperate.
