On This Day, in the Year of Our Lord 13 Jan 00, at 8:02, thus spake Ray Olszewski :
Weird. My message appeared after I got replies to it.
Ray, as usual, thank you:
> 1. Are you connecting to a news site that will serve you? If
> the configuration work was occasioned by a service change
> (e.g., dialup to DSL), your old news server may be refusing to
> connect to you at all. (To test this: telnet from the Linux
> router to port 119 on the news server, or simply run a news
> client on the Linux host and verify that you can get service
> there.)
The Linux box can connect to port 119 without any problems.
Also, we just noticed (heh), that we can't surf. The site gets a
"connected" but nothing loads. Of course we can ping it, and we
also can surf the web from the Linux machine.
> 2. Check for any ipchains rules that affect port 119, the nntp
> port.
None there. If you want, I can send you the rules we have set up
for Ipchains, being there a total of three. I'll have my friend send
them to me.
> 3. Am I correct in assuming that other services -- telnet,
> ftp, http, dns -- work fine from the Win98 machine? Or might
> the problem be more general?
I had my friend test everything. The only things that don't work are
ICQ's option to send files (that probably easily fixable by telling ICQ
that it is behind a firewall), news and web. Everything else, so far,
works like a charm.
Mind you, in our sheer ignorance, we probably buggered something
up, somewhere.
Thanks Ray,
leandro
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Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672)
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