[olpc-community-support] Browser failed to connect

[JonB]

You are hot on the track here.  This IS a DNS problem but it's dang hard to see.

Get your XO so it's connected (green circle with white outer rim).  Then open a Terminal and type this in:

  nm-tool

You should see lots of fun network related info.  That last part is what's important.  Make sure you see:

IP Address: 192.168.0.3
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 192.168.0.255
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Primary DNS: 192.168.0.1
Secondary DNS: --some other IP address--

If all those IP numbers look good (no 0.0.0.0's in there) then do this:

  ping yahoo.com

Oops, you already did that - looks good.

Now one more step, fetch the web page with wget:

  wget yahoo.com

You'll see wget do a name lookup on yahoo.com.  It'll look something like this:

Resolving yahoo.com... 216.109.112.135, 66.94.234.13
Connecting to yahoo.com|blah... connected
then some more blah with "301 Moved..." and another Resolving www.yahoo.com message.

IF THAT MESSAGE COMES BACK with an IP address of 1.0.0.0 then your firmware in your modem is whack and needs to be updated.  The GT700 series modems use Linux with a whack version of IP6 DNS.  Your XO is the first IP6 aware device you've tried on your network so it's the first to trip the bug in your modem.

So does wget give you 1.0.0.0?