can't connect to pop.sonic.net behind wifi extender

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by youngm » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:54 pm
I recently bought and installed a Netgear WN2000RPT v2 wifi extender to get a wired port for my linux desktop. I also connect using XP from an old laptop.

When I try to get mail using evolution on Fedora, I get 'Could not connect to pop.sonic.net: Host lookup failed: pop.sonic.net: Name or service not known'.

I get a similar message when I connect through the extender using wifi on my laptop.

If I connect directly to wifi on the sonic dsl modem/wifi, I get mail no problem through outlook. I think this is a dns configuration problem between the extender, and the sonic modem/router, but haven't been able to resolve it.

Any advice?
by dane » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:02 pm
Odd. Does everything else appear to work?
Dane Jasper
Sonic
by youngm » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:27 pm
once I disabled ipv6 i don't have any problem browsing, I was able to download and install software, ping mutliple sites.....
by youngm » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:29 pm
*didn't*
by dane » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:58 am
Very odd. Maybe contact support for Netgear?
Dane Jasper
Sonic
by kavan » Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:35 pm
Do you have our Name servers set in the laptop? 208.201.224.11 and 208.201.224.33 and can you ping or traceroute (i.e. resolve) pop.sonic.net?
by youngm » Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:38 am
From my wired Linux box, I can ping sonic.net, and i can traceroute to 209.204.190.64, but when I try traceroute to sonic.net, i get: 'Name or service not known. Cannot handle "host" cmdline arg `sonic.net' on position 1 (argc 1)'

My laptop, via wireless, can ping sonic.net, but I don't have traceroute available.
by aw » Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:53 am
Two things:
A) What's the output when you run 'cat /etc/resolv.conf' on your Fedora box?

B) Traceroute is in XP, it's just named "tracert"
by youngm » Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:18 pm
ok, tracert resolves on the laptop, and was also able to get mail in outlook over the extender... ;-}

Evolution appears to be connecting to the mailservers, but not downloading ----

That's a different problem.

I'm not sure what changed, but it appears to be working - FM....

Thanks for your time and interest.

cat /etc/resolv.conf:

nameserver 192.168.1.254 - this is the address of the router..
nameserver 192.168.1.250
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