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Can't ping external hosts

Posted on August 18, 2014

I created droplet with Ubuntu 14.04. I can’t ping external hosts from my console. Command “ping google.com” returns text “unknown host google.com” Also can’t connect from external computer through ssh. It seems like my droplet is closed fro external connects. Please, advise what to do.



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