I'm seeing some weird things going on with my network. I have two computers behind an IPCop firewall. One of the computers is my W2K workstation - it has no problems doing name resolution and browsing the web. The other computer is my Gentoo server and it will periodically refuse to resolve names. It does this when I'm trying to install packages sometimes, or even just trying to ping a remote server.
I've just finished checking and reinstalling the IPCop firewall - and saw the symptoms appear again immediately (ping www.google.ca failed to resolve). However, a few minutes later, it's resolving with no problems. The obvious assumption is that my server isn't setup right. But I've just checked it's hosts file, and resolv.conf file - hosts has entries for my local computers, and resolv.conf has entries for my name servers (well, Telus' servers). Should I not have my firewall computer in the resolv.conf file? Would that be the cause of this sort of trouble? I've also checked the default gateway, and it's set correctly. Has anyone else running IPCop seen the same sort of behaviour? Thanks for any tips. Shawn
