Hello everybody, Everytime I install Linux somewhere along with firewall and some other services, in a LAN I screw up. Did it again this time.
The set up I was trying at our college internet room was as follows: A Linux Internet Gateway and LAN server (same machine) through which four other windows machines would connect to the internet. I was told to install Mandrake 8.1 on the machine and while installing, I chose "high security" and during software selection, I chose almost all services like Firewall, Mail server, etc. After installation, I stopped almost all of them, hoping to enable them later when I was ready (maybe after reading the Firewall howto and the IP-Masquerading howto.) Now, the problem is, whenever I try to connect to the internet using dial-up, no connections go out. Most probably, the local ip addresses(I mean, the addresses of the local machines) are being checked. Obviously, when I say http://www.google.com in a browser, I get "host not found" error. Please tell me what could be the possible reasons for this. Presently, at home, I am not on Mandrake, but Woody. As you can well understand, I am an absolute layman as far as networking is concerned. Last time I ran into a similar problem in Debian, I found that the file /etc/resolve.conf was missing. (This time this is not the problem.) Regards, Santanu Chatterjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Two, two, TWO treats in one. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
