On Tuesday 21 August 2001 11:05, Lisa Evans wrote: > I've had this problem a couple of times in the past week, where nothing on > my Mandrake 8.0 system can look up the IP addresses of domains via DNS > lookup. Browsers can't resolve hosts, fetchmail gives a 'canonical DNS > error', ping can't find hosts, etc. (This is while I am connected to my ISP > via a ppp connection). The problem is at my end, because when I reboot into > Windows 2000 I don't have the same problem. If I look up the IP addresses > some other way and type them in directly into my browser, to fetchmail, > etc. everything works fine. > > The first time it happened I couldn't solve it and I reinstalled Mandrake > (lame solution number 1). Everything worked fine for a few days, but today > the problem came back. I definitely have to find out why this is happening > and fix it, because I don't want to reinstall again. Actually you probably need to install a different ISP. I have seen this before. Microsoft supplies a neato "free" add-on to its NT servers for ISP that "prevents IP spoofing". It queries port 139 periodically on the connected machines and when it doesn't get the proper response you are off the net. It is well-known that only Windows doesn't have raw socket capability so the anti-spoofing software kicks non-windows systems (with spoofing capability) off the net. It also in more recent versions cookies you so that you cannot do anything like reboot into windows to restore your function. However, assuming it is not the "lame ISP " answer, let us see /etc/resolv.conf /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/draknet* and tell us if you are using kppp or your own script with pppd or something else. Civileme > > Can anyone help? > > Lisa Evans ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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