Mr.Jason <jaakkochanREMOVETHIS@surfeu.fi> wrote:
> Ping said "unknown host" when I tried to ping the server. From server I
> didnt try to ping outside yet.

Why were you trying to use ping with the domain name when you knew you
were having network problems? Always use the IP address when investigating
networking issues. For example, my ISP gateway router tends to go down on
occasion. When my connection dies, I don't try to "ping gateway.blah", I
try to "ping -n x.x.x.x", where x.x.x.x is the gateway's IP address.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is all about DNS problems and the server
itself was fine all along. Also, as for tcpdump and the like, make sure to
use the -n option (no DNS lookup) or you're just going to be waiting
forever for it to try to reverse resolve IP address if the problem is a
DNS one.