Is it possible that my cable provider has begun filtering out any nat'd traffic that I send out?
Things were fine up until about a week or so ago I think and I was able to surf the net normally through a windows gateway box. From that point on I was unable to surf the internet through a system behind the nat box but was able to surf directly on that machine. I can also use a proxy server installed on that machine to surf the internet from my box behind it. I can't say I really trusted that box but for the moment I didn't have any time to do anything about it. Today however, I decided to move over to a linux-on-a-floppy distro until I had the time to move over to a full linux installation. The first floppy-router-distro that I came across today was coyote linux. I went through the windows floppy configuration program and generated a floppy which I managed to successfully boot from. At this point, on the machine running coyote-linux I could ping sites, both on the lan and on the internet. However, I found myself unable to ping any sites on the internet using one of the systems behind that box, although I could ping the coyote-linux system and had configured the dns and proxy server to the ip of the coyote-linux box. I haven't run into a nat system yet that didn't offer dns-forwarding so could that be my problem... that I need to specify the isp's name servers directly? However, wouldn't it be odd for me to have such a problem after the nat software I was using mysteriously died the previous week? David Aikema _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
