Question
can't ping any website even google.com "unknown host google.com"
- Posted on September 11, 2014
Asked by support795065
I have: 512MB Ram 20GB SSD Disk Singapore 1 LEMP on Ubuntu 14.04
I have installed LEPM one-click installation. then I:
- Went through initial server setup
- key-based authentication
- I ran
mysql_secure_installation - installed a firewall (ufw)
now I wanted to install logentries to monitor my server logs and in the installation I have got an error. After lots of search I found out that I cannot ping any domain even google.com. It gives me the following error: ping: unknown host google.com What is the best solution to solve this because I am going to have this server for years so I don’t want a “spaghetti” solution :-)
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Hello,
Can you ping the default gateway ?
I had the same connectivity issue, due to kernel 3.13.0-24, but after upgrading to 3.13.0-32 I was able to ping the default gateway, so my connectivity issues were gone.
Don’t know how to use ufw, but in iptables you must add an entry for incoming connections that permits responses from remote hosts:``` -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
Not a ufw user I prefer iptables. So you have to enter icmp rules to enable ping, from a quick google search I found that you have to enable icmp rules in /etc/ufw/before.rules if there are any rules. If not add the following:
-A ufw-before-input -p icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j ACCEPT -A ufw-before-input -p icmp --icmp-type source-quench -j ACCEPT -A ufw-before-input -p icmp --icmp-type time-exceeded -j ACCEPT -A ufw-before-input -p icmp --icmp-type parameter-problem -j ACCEPT -A ufw-before-input -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT