{"id":344,"date":"2015-01-10T06:55:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T04:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=344"},"modified":"2015-01-10T06:55:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T04:55:30","slug":"unable-to-browse-network-in-linux-using-pace-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Unable to browse network in Linux using Pace router"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently upgraded to VDSL and had to purchase a VDSL router. The only router that was readily available was a PACE VDSL router model 921VNX.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that I am now unable to connect to machines on my network from my Linux machines. I received a reply from an external URL when pinging a machine on my internal network.<\/p>\n<p>After some research I found that it&#8217;s a known issue with the Pace routers. Some people advised that a firmware update resolved this for them but I already have the latest firmware update.<\/p>\n<p>The video below shows how to get around it by editing your hosts file in Linux Mint.<\/p>\n<p>Note: my Windows 8 PC&#8217;s could browse the network fine and connect to the other machines using the host name.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unable to browse network in Linux using Pace router\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_rRSZrAAg2k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently upgraded to VDSL and had to purchase a VDSL router. The only router that was readily available was a PACE VDSL router model 921VNX. The problem is that I am now unable to connect to machines on my network from my Linux machines. I received a reply from an external URL when pinging a machine on my internal network. After some research I found that it&#8217;s a known issue with the Pace routers. Some people advised that a firmware update resolved this for them but I already have the latest firmware update. The video below shows how to get around it by editing your hosts file in Linux Mint. Note: my Windows 8 PC&#8217;s could browse the network fine and connect to the other machines using the host name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,160,307],"tags":[309,382,291,310,311,308],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-linux-mint","category-networking","tag-edit-hosts-file-in-linux-mint","tag-linux-mint","tag-linux-mint-17-1","tag-pace-router-issues","tag-receive-external-url-when-pinging-a-computer-on-the-local-network","tag-unable-to-browse-network-in-linux-using-pace-router"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}