Hi, This is probably LINUX related, but I'm not 100% sure. Today, I asked my ADSL provider (Israsrv) for a permanent IP address. After the help-desk set it up for me, I was no longer able to do anything on the internet. To verify that the IP address was the problem, I had the help-desk return me to a dynamic address, and everything is back to normal.
Here are the symptoms I had: 1 - I connected and could ping, but packet loss was about 70% 2 - When pinging a URL like www.iglu.org.il (and not a numerical IP address) I got no reaction at all (possible DNS problem, but I had no DNS problems with the dynamic address) 3 - I couldn't reach anything with Mozilla (possibly same problem as #2) Let me just say that I made no changes to my connecting script or firewall. Should I have changed something to work with a permanent IP address? The help-desk was unable to help (aside from returning me to a dynamic address). I hope to speak to someone more knowlegeable tommorrow, but in the meantime, I'd like to know if someone on the list has had this problem. TIA -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail (KDE 3.0.5a) on LINUX Mandrake 9.0 ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
