Thanx again,very much derek for taking the time to reply. The port # has been entered. 3128..I've also tried using port 80 & port 8080 too..lol. Anyways I'm back to 3128 as we speak :-). It definately won't surf when configged as a direct connection.
The firewall has been shut down, I was using InteractiveBastille,which along with iptables & chains have been shut down,taking no chances for the moment..lol I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "pinging the nic on the 'net side" So now in the meantime I got the bright idea to just try a fresh install (idiot) cause now I'm back to the problem of getting that "modem is busy message again" I fixed this once before and I can't remember how I did it !! So I'll start over again.The good part is no Bastille has been configged at all. Gotta get some air now tho..lol. Hava great Sunday friends :-) Lee > I forgot to ask the other obvious question. > > Have you entered the proxy port nunber into your browsers proxy settings? > The default port number for Squid is 3128 > > However you should still be able to surf without Squid being properly > configured so long as you have enabled Network Address Translation (NAT or > IP Masquerading) in the Gateway Computer. Can you surf if you do not > declare the proxy in your browser? > > You can test if IP Masquerading (NAT) is working if you can ping the > Ethernet adapter on the Internet side if the gateway computer. > If you can ping that, then try pinging the DNS servers. > If that works then try pinging a network server by name like :- > ping www.yahoo.com > > It might be worthwhile stopping the Firewall while you debug the system. > Firewalls are notorious for stopping services and get in the way of > faultfinding. You can stop the firewall with this command > /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall stop > > > As for your question about Host Tables and DNS. > Your computer has to try to resolve network host names into IP addresses > since IP packets use only IP address and never host names. > It will always start by looking at the host table. If there is a match > there it will use that IP address. If there is no entry in the host table > for a given name, then it will use DNS to look up a name. > > This is why leaving out the 'localhost' entry is bad. If the localhost > entry is missing, then everytime the computer has to attach to a local > socket the computer will go and ask the DNS server where 'localhost' is, > and of course will not get an answer. > > On Saturday 15 December 2001 22:16, lee wrote: > > Thanx alot for the reply Derek.To answer you 1 by 1 here... > > > > 1)Yep..127.0.0.1 localhost is there alright... 1 for 1 eh :) > > > > 2) DNS is indeed enabled,and the ip of the proxy is there..so good so far > > > > :-) > > > > 3) The default gateway is also the ip of the proxy. > > > > Now something that's bothering me is this,I was under the (false) > > impression that if I used a host file,I didn't need DNS. anyway..I do > > have DNS enabled (required for normal operation ?) in linux.conf (under > > names server spec) > > > > I'm still geting this "host name lookup failure" in the place I > > described below? Anyway's it's 3:30 am sun. morning and I'm still > > trying..lol > > > > Hava great Sun. all :-) > > > > Lee > > > > > Do you have an entry in your /etc/hosts file that says > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > > > > Do you have your DNS enabled and the host names of your DNS servers in > > > it? Have you declared a default gateway? The default gartway will be > > > the IP address of the machine between you and the Internet. > > > You can use netconf to set up all that stuff. > > > > > > Derek > > > > > > On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:15, lee wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > Ok..running 8.1 here,using the box as a proxy (squid),at present > > > > trying to connect another box (also 8.1). I can ping the proxy (& > > > > vice versa) but can't surf thru it (dns?). > > > > > > > > X does not start auto. So I enter my login info & enter the command > > > > to start x. All well up TO this point. Now however, after entering > > > > the command, I see a message "host name lookup failure". Then x > > > > starts as planned. > > > > > > > > Now as I look thru my stuff..I see the hostname in all the places > > > > it's supposed to be ( I think..lol ). Just not sure how to fix this > > > > issue..and whether it's contributing to my inability to get this box > > > > to proxy. There may very well be issues with squid that is causing > > > > this..but if I could get this message to go away..I'd sure feel > > > > better > > > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > > > fwiw..getting (unknown host) when i try to surf. Also I just noticed > > > > that when I do a "whereis" for lisa --kde2,it finds it,,but nmblookup > > > > is a command that cannot be found. Furthermore when in drakconf,and > > > > Itry to start "named"..aka bind..I get a failed message (x-tra > > > > command line arguments). not sure if it has anything to do with what > > > > I'm trying to do,as I'm thinking this may be a web thing,but if I can > > > > ping but not surf,that would be a dns issue..correct ? > > > > > > > > Thank you all very much for your time. I'm sorry for the long > > > > post,just trying to be complete :-) > > > > > > > > Lee
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