Unfortunately, your rules look fine. I doubt the problem is there. As you
describe it, it sounds like you have a more general DNS problem.

Right now, all we know is that one service (http) does work while two others
(POP3 and SMTP) do not. From the errors they return, it sounds like they are
having problems with name resolution.

So ... first thing to do is to see if other servides (telnet, ftp, ping, DNS
directly via host, dig, or nslookup) work. Also try your browser again,
making sure you connect to sites you have never before accessed (Netscape
keeps a big address cache independent of DNS, and I bet IE does the same).
Finally, in Eudora, replace the hostnames of your SMTP and POP3 mail relays
with their actual IP addresses. All this will tell you if you have a more
general DNS problem.

If I'm right and you do have a general DNS problem, see if the DNS server IP
addresses you have are still valid. See if you can telnet to their ports 53
(the DNS port) by IP address. If not, ask your ISP if it has an updated list
of DNS servers. When you disable DNS on Win95, you may be getting rid of the
hand-entered addresses but allowing its ppp package to get new nameserver
addresses -- if not, I'm really curious as to how you are managing to send
and receive e-mail without any DNS capability).

At 09:53 PM 11/26/99 +0700, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote [in part]:

>Yes I can run a web browser and surf the net through the router from the same
>win95 client that failed with Eudora. I am not familiar with telnet and
>have not had
>to check it out yet.
>
>I can neither send or check mail through the router using Eudora. Not while
>the modem
>is attached to the router; not even when I move the modem to the win95
>client and directly
>dialing-up the ISP. In the latter situation I had to "Disable DNS" in the
>windows95 network
>configuration to check and send mail again. Disabling DNS removes the
>nameservers of
>the ISP from the win95 client networking config; the same sets of numbers
>from /etc/resolv.conf
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