[conspire] running ifconfig - getting errors and collisions

[A. P. Godshall]

On 5/30/06, Ryan Russell <ryan at thievco.com> wrote:
> Darlene Wallach wrote:
> > I recently got dsl. Connectivity seems to have been working
> > very well until today.
> >
> > I seem to keep losing connectivity and/or having connectivity
> > problems. Sometimes
> > $ ping -c4 www.google.com
> > ping: unknown host www.google.com
>
...
>
> > $ ping -c4 www.google.com
> > PING www.l.google.com (66.102.7.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > 64 bytes from 66.102.7.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=10.9 ms
> > 64 bytes from 66.102.7.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=10.7 ms
> > 64 bytes from 66.102.7.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=246 time=10.4 ms
> > 64 bytes from 66.102.7.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=246 time=10.6 ms
> >
> > --- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
> > 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
> > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 10.446/10.689/10.929/0.186 ms, pipe 2
>
> Once the name is resolved, connectivity looks good.  At least, for these
> 8 packets in that 3 second window.
...

I had some serious DNS problems with SBC (none with speakeasy) and had
a better time after I ran dns through pndsd (apt-get install pdnsd).

Are you sure it's a connectivity issue rather than a DNS issue?