On Wednesday 21 August 2002 09:16, you wrote:
> Running Mandrake 7.2
> I'm having a weird problem .. Today I was dinking around w/ a gui e-mail
> client (One installed as part of kde) and after running it for the first
> time I am unable to
> get an outgoing internet connection, as a matter of fact I can't even ping
> anything.  The key word here is OUTGOING CONNECTION.  Incoming connections
> (I have a web-server on the machine) work fine.
> I checked the route entries and they look like they did when outgoing
> connections were working. What else can I check/change that may get me
> closer to a solution.
>
> - PJ

If you are running a firewall on a separate box, check your dns entries in
/etc/resolv.conf against the ones given by dhcp on the firewall box.  AT&T 
just changed my dns servers and all my internal boxes lost connectivity till 
I changed the resolv.conf dns entries.  I should probably set up dhcp 
internally and hand out the current dns at that point using a script, but I 
guess I will just manually update the boxes for now.

Kelly Black
KB0GBJ