Thanks for your comments Ian -- and it was with Shaw and I had two static IPs giving me a total of 4 (2 new and 2 old).
A part of the story that I had not relayed but may be of interest to others. Everything was done and tested by midnight and I sent off the notes of gratitude. This should be a piece of cake to resolve. It was time for my after midnight surfing -- what no internet. Logged onto the IPCop box as root. Pinged Shaw's DNS servers -- positive. Pinged Shaw's gateway -- positive. Pinged my domain name -- negative. So it seems to be able to get to Shaw's DNS but it is not translating to an IP address. Pinged Google -- negative. "So it is not only me." From Firefox go to website -- negative (as expected). Go to Google -- negative (as expected). Go to webserver -- positive (expected the default website as it is a virtual host box). Phoned Shaw, was on hold for at least 25 minutes and the wireless phone gave out. After a break and a second try, they answer -- they said to try to connecting a box directly to the cable modem via dhcp and see if you can get internet. So I removed the wireless network card, run ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew, ipconfig /all (yea, it was one of those boxes). Firefox brings up Google. Plug in the IPCop box and it works fine now too. I don't get it -- did someone do something and not fest up? >Just a little gotcha, depending on your ISP and circumstances - always >check with your ISP to make sure you can have all your IPs, new and >old, active at once. From personal experience: At my last job, we had >a Shaw business connection, and 8 static IPs. Shaw's old Cybersurfr >modems had (according to the people at tech support) a hard limit of 8 >IPs that could be stored in the device at once. So, the first time I >tried that trick of getting all 16 active at once, it was all tears >and frustration. ;-) > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
