I’m running Ubuntu 14.04. For some reason I can no longer connect to the internet from my VPS and I can only access it from the VNC console :-(
cat /etc/network/interfaces :
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 178.62.xxx.xxx
netmask 255.255.192.0
gateway 178.62.192.1
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
route -n:
0.0.0.0 178.62.192.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
ping -c 3 178.62.192.1:
From 178.62.xxx.xxx icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
I have no clue where to look. I was messing around with the firewall earlier, but those should be inactive now. Both ‘ufw status’ and ‘iptables -L’ indicate this…
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