i'm in a mixed marriage. i'm mac, my wife is windows (not that she likes it, she just invested all that time and doesn't want it to be for nothing). and we now have a new member on the team, of course: debian linux. works like a champ!
but this is a very odd situation. in my home i've got linux acting as firewall, routing thru cablemodem/microwave wireless to connect to the world. i use the 192.168.*.* subnet within the house to assign numbers: i'm 1.100, she's 1.200, and linux is 1.1, and all works fine from my mac. i power up my mac and can instantly browse, email, telnet, ftp... no waiting, ever. but when my wife cranks up her computer and launches exporer it says she has no internet connection and "would you like to work offline?" starting a dos window we try 'ping pacific.net.au' just for fun, and the linux nameserver correctly looks it up and the pings march across the screen. (this is from her msdos prompt, not a telnet session to linux.) so her setup seems okay, but outlook express, aol and explorer all refuse to cooperate for minutes on end. after quitting/relaunching or stopping/reloading a webpage finally comes up and then all is well. i checked to see that her nameserver/gateway/tcp/lan settings were just like mine (except for the last number on the 192.168.1.* of course), yet this persists. even bewilderingly vague clues would be much appreciated.
