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I know it is not ideal, but one thing to try is to check with your ISP
and get the address of the DNSs. try these in the DNS area of the setup
to see if that works. If it does then you will have to edit your
dhclient.conf to make them stick.
To do this you need to start a terminal then type sudo su - press enter
and put in your password. This will make you root until you close the
terminal or exit.
cd /etc/dhcp3
vi dhclient.conf
i //this takes you to insert mode
move to the line that starts "prepend..."
change the DNS from 127.0.0.1 to your ISPs DNS address
press escape //This takes you back to command mode
:wq //This is command write the file and quit vi
//NOTE: the colon (:) is required
Then exit and close the terminal.
This is necessary because this file probes for DNS each time it is run
(check out the line after the one you edited) and will change anything
you put in your network settings dialog box.
NOTE: If you do this and it works you will be bypassing your router and
its firewall.
Heracles
Murray wrote:
> G'day
>
> Don't know if this helps, but I have managed to disable the ADSL
> connection to my windows machine by installing a firewall. Enable it and
> I can't connect to the web, even though firefox is an allowed program.
> When I disable it, everything is working again.
>
> More head scratching...
>
> Muz.
>
>
> Quoting Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> G'day,
>>
>> Thanks for the description, I knew some of it, and this filled in the
>> blanks. The reason I am swapping the phone plug is more laziness,
>> that's the closest connection and I haven't bother to get all the
>> plugs, leads, etc and set it properly yet. (Just moved into our new
>> house, and also I don't want to leave leads running down the hallway
>> where my kids can pull on them.)
>>
>> All the lights are doing what they are suppose to do. I have been using
>> my broadband connection with Windows to send all these emails.
>>
>> So, its probably my setup then. I did have to add 10.1.1.1 to the hosts
>> list to be able to talk to the modem in the first place. I couldn't
>> connect just now until after I removed this. But my system connects 1
>> in 5 turns. So I downloaded my emails and did reply to your email. But
>> before I could finish, my PC stopped communicating again. I haven't
>> been able to get it up and running again, but all I did was deactived
>> and reactive the ethO connection.
>>
>> The connection on my lappy, running Windows, has stayed up and running,
>> so I'm retyping my reply on it.
>>
>> Now to tackle a software or authentication problem...
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Muz
>>
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