In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:40:45AM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:
[snip] > hmm. maybe > # apt-get install ipmasq > and then after > # ifconfig > shows your ports and connections are fat dumb and happy (alive and > working) > # ipmasq > ? > just a thought... Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look what it does. In the meantime I've solved the problem by trial and error. I found that it was the DNS which wasn't working. I use the inbuild DNS server of the ISDN router, so I looked at its statistics and found addresses like www.altavista.com.local.net and so on, i.e. local.net appended to all addresses. So I realised why queries by host names didn't work whereas the IP ones did (I hadn't realised that in my previous post). Then I found that the entry "search local.net" in /etc/resolv.conf was causing this behaviour. Since I removed it, it works. But in the meantime somebody else told me that the "search local.net" /should/ be present. Could somebody please explain to me what this "search" option in /etc/resolv.conf does? Thanks in advance. Greetings, Stefan. -- Stefan Bellon * <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * <http://www.sbellon.de/> I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson)