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On 27 Feb 2000, Bob Schmanski wrote:
> specifically, from the Win98 box I can ping any static IP on the net, but
> dns lookup fails (I can't ping any hostnames). I can telnet to static IP's
> but sometimes I don't get a login prompt, and on the machines that I do get
> a login prompt and have login access to, I can log in, but never get a UNIX
> prompt. I cannot browse (www/http) to IPs or hostnames. Hostnames fail dns
> lookup and IP's hang at "host contacted, waiting for reply". From the
Someone else suggested that this is a DNS problem. I'm not exactly sure what
the problem is, but it is certainly not a DNS issue. One possibility is that
your masquerading entries are timing out too quickly. Type "ipchains -L -v"
after doing some tests and check the packet counts. If you are seeing
something like this: "Chain forward (policy DENY: 1856 packets, 350238
bytes)", you probably have the timeout problem.
-- Michael Best
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