On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 10:15, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 16.04.2005 schrieb TE Dukes um 15:34: > > > > > Local machines on the internal network cannot connect. Strange thing is they can ping internal and > > > > external IP addresses. Samba services are working. > > > > > > Indicates the LAN clients don't have valid DNS settings. Check and > > > correct them. Either a local DNS or your ISP's DNS server IPs are > > > required. > > > I assign static internal IPs to the local machines. Server is 10.10.0.1 > > and the others 10.10.0.2, 10.10.0.3 and 10.10.0.4 with the Gateway as > > 10.10.0.1. > > > > For the DNS servers, I use my ISPs servers, 166.102.165.15 and > > 162.39.164.14 for all machines. > > You said you can ping IP addresses in the net and get back a pong on the > LAN client hosts, correct? But if you ping a host by name in the > internet that fails? On the client then test DNS: > > dig google.com +trace > > Btw. 162.39.164.14 does not resolve my requests (only when using dig > with +trace). That can be the problem. GOOD LORD!!! Apparently those IP address for my ISP DNS servers are no longer valid. I changed settings on all machines to obtain DNS automatically and everybody is up and running. Been using those IP addresses for over 5 years!!! I just spent 2 1/2 days of a 4 day weekend on this. :-( I really appreciate your help in resolving this issue!!!! Again THANKS!! > > > ifconfig reports: > [ snipped ] > > Anything here that's incorrect? > > Looks ok. > > If above is not leading to success. Does connections to named internet > hosts from the gateway host itself work properly? Then check your > firewalling. > > Alexander >
