For those of you who may not remember, my problem was not being able to reach certain URLs from Win98 machines connected to my ADSL line via my LINUX box.
In the end, it turned out not to be a LINUX problem after all. I finally got around to using ethereal to try to see if the MTU was properly set on the Win98s. It was OK, but playing with ethereal, I discovered that on the problem URLs, DNS was not returning the same IP address to Win98 as I was getting in LINUX. I then checked and discovered that the 3 Win98 machines were configured to use a different DNS server than the one in my LINUX resolv.conf. The reason is that the Win98s were set up long before I had ADSL and the DNS server was for the ISP I used about 5 years ago. The DNS in resolv.conf belongs to my current ISP. Until a few weeks ago, this was not a problem. In fact, I had ruled out a DNS problem earlier because the Win98s could reach most URLs with no problem and there were only a few problematical URLs. I still don't understand this. I would have thought that if the DNS server was not funtioning, all translations would not work. I guess I was wrong about that. But, in any case, that's not really on topic, since I now know that the problem was not LINUX. -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail (KDE 3.1) on LINUX Mandrake 9.1 ================================================================= 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]
