Dear Paul: Thanks again for your response. > So you are using a nameserver on your LAN at 192.168.1.14? Who maintains > that nameserver? Is that your IP address? Yes. And I have a CISCO PIX Firewall who will do the NAT for all local addresses in 192.168.1.x. It's been like this for years now. Recently, my old SuSe 6.2 server crashed; it was running BIND 8 with forwarding to my ISP and very fast. When I started anew, I would like to shift to RedHat but still wondering which version is the best. I decided first to go for RH7.3 but then, IPTABLES did not seem to be complete;so I decided to go for RH9.0. I've been searching around and found that many people encountered the same problem but no clear solution. Let me raise it again; the problem is that, I usually get this error message from named: ";;Connection timed out; no servers could be reached" when I do "# host www.yahoo.com", but after the second or third try, it responds correctly. Could you suggest which RedHat/Fedora version I should use? I cannot wait for FC3. The only 3 most important packages I need are: BIND, Squid and IPTABLES. I'd like very much get RH Enterprise 3, but it's not avaiable in the market here; and don't know where and how to buy one. And, what could be the problem with my DNS server behind the PIX Firewall and with its IP being masqueraded? As I pointed above we had no problem with the old server (running SuSe 6.2 with BIND 8). Thanks again and regards, Vidol
