On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 06:55, Raymond Norton wrote: > I use an ipchains script on my Linux box to get Internet to my win98 machine. > Up till yesterday it was working fine. One minute it was working , the next it > stopped. I now can only get to web sites by IP address. I have not changed anything that I know of. Can some one tell me what I might verify, or change on the script to be sure the DNS works for the workstation. Also would like to know if I am to use real name servers in TCP settings for Win98, or the IP of the Linux box. Presently I was using the name servers of my ISP. Any other ideas would be appreciated, including some alternative scripts or programs to use my Linux box as a gateway. Presently I am using the firewall.sh script from the plonk project. So, if I understand you correctly, your Linux box is acting as a gateway for your Windows machine? If this is correct, then your Windows box should have the actual DNS server IP addresses for its DNS servers, and your Linux box for its gateway. Since it sounds like you can reach the Internet via IP addressing from your Windows box, this (gateway) part is set up correctly. It definitely sounds like a DNS issue. Verify that the IP addresses you are using are correct, and see if you can ping those addresses (to make sure the servers are up, although DNS may still be broken on them even if they respond to a ping). If you can verify that DNS is not respoonding, call your ISP -- it is most likely their problem, and they may even know about it if other customers have already called. You may want to consider setting up at least a caching DNS server on your Linux gateway. It will take some of the load off your network connection (no need to query an Internet DNS server if your caching server has the information), and can even help in a case such as this, where most of your commonly-visited sites will be in its cache, and so no DNS lookup need be done. Dave -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010918/9b001943/attachment.pgp