can't see internet from server

[broecher]

I have a computer set up and working as a headless samba server, but it has no internet access. I would like to make it an ftp server but i can't even access the software repository....

Here are some of my settings and things. Any ideas what I should do?

Its ubuntu server 9.04.

My ifconfig output:

me@ubuntuServer:/etc/network$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5d:50:*
inet addr:192.168.0.169 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::205:*:acc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2469 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:253819 (253.8 KB) TX bytes:142009 (142.0 KB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xdc00

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:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1752 (1.7 KB) TX bytes:1752 (1.7 KB)

my interfaces file:

GNU nano 2.0.9 File: interfaces

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.169
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1

My google ping attempt:

me@ubuntuServer:/etc/network$ ping -c3 64.233.169.103
PING 64.233.169.103 (64.233.169.103) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 64.233.169.103 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2004ms

and my router numbers:

WAN

Connection Type : DHCP Client
Cable Status : Connected
Network Status : Established
Connection Up Time : 27 Days, 12:19:11

MAC Address : 00:E0:18****
IP Address : 208.******.0
Subnet Mask : 255.255.254.0
Default Gateway : 208.******.1
Primary DNS Server : 24.220.0.10
Secondary DNS Server : 24.220.0.11

LAN

MAC Address : 00:1E:58:*****
IP Address : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
DHCP Server : Enabled

I changed the range of DCHP to not includ my static IP for the server of 192.168.0.169 :

DHCP SERVER SETTINGS
Use this section to configure the built-in DHCP Server to assign IP addresses to the computers on your network.


Enable DHCP Server:
DHCP IP Address Range: 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.160
DHCP Lease Time: 1440 (minutes)
Always broadcast: (compatibility for some DHCP Clients)

[volkswagner]

Are you sure the server has no internet access?

What do you get when you run the following:

host google.com

or

wget http://www.google.com/index.html

Perhaps you can't connect to the repository because 9.04 has reached end of life in Oct 2010?

[broecher]

I didn't realize the repositories get closed - I thought they would just not be updated... That could be a problem I guess, 12.04 wouldn't install on this computer.

me@ubuntuServer:~$ host google.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

me@ubuntuServer:~$ wget http://www.google.com/index.html
--2012-10-05 21:44:04-- http://www.google.com/index.html
Resolving www.google.com... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www.google.com'

[broecher]

If I could get the internet working, maybe what is described in this post is still possible.

http://superuser.com/questions/33953...tu-9-04-jaunty

[darkod]

To your interfaces file add also dns servers like:
dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1 8.8.8.8

When you say 12.04 wouldn't install, have you tried? If you are running the server version, I wouldn't say it uses that much more resources.

On the other hand, if you are using the desktop version as a server, yes, the 12.04 might not install on machines that can run 9.04.

But in any case, 9.04 is not supported any more long time ago and you need to start thinking about other options I guess.

PS. The ping to an IP doesn't work, so it is not only a question of dns. Can you ping the router at 192.168.0.1? That's the first thing to see, if it has connection with the router at all. If you can't ping the router, double check the connections.

[broecher]

Yes it will ping the router. I am accessing it from putty on another computer right now.

I tried to install 12.04 two times. It acted like it was working but then after it said to remove the cd, it would not boot. If I remember correctly, it there was no bios page or anything, escape and F-keys did nothing, just a black screen.

[darkod]

Well, your network settings look correct.

Have you activated any firewall on the server maybe?

On another note, BIOS and getting into it have nothing to do with the OS. It's weird if you could not get into BIOS regardless which OS you want to install.

Sounds like maybe only the bootloader didn't install, or if you have multiple disks maybe it installed on one disk and you are booting from another disk.

[broecher]

Thanks for the advice. I may try to re-install 12.04 again and see if I can figure out what the problem with it was.

I just disabled ufw completely and it still cannot reach the internet.

[darkod]

If you tried to play with ufw too much, you might have caused this yourself. But ssh access seems to be working fine... Strange...

In any case, ufw is sometimes weird, you might want to flush the iptables rules too, something like:
sudo iptables -F

If you do a new install, try the internet first after setting up the static IP. See if it works.

Only then start configuring firewalls and stuff. At least you will know if it worked "out of the box".

[kennethconn]

network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255

My interfaces file does not have these entries (and only has the router as it's dns-naneservers).

Have you restarted networking on server?
Restarting router?

Can't really think of much more.