[newbie] DHCP trouble with Comcast.net

2002-01-21 Thread Steven Bradtke
Previous to the recent switchover from @Home's network to Comcast's own network, I assigned my firewall machine a static IP address and everything worked fine. However, now I've got to use DHCP to lease a dynamically assigned address from the network. I can't get this to work. I keep getting

Re: [newbie] DHCP trouble with Comcast.net

2002-01-21 Thread Matt
On Monday 21 January 2002 03:30 pm, you wrote: Previous to the recent switchover from @Home's network to Comcast's own network, I assigned my firewall machine a static IP address and everything worked fine. However, now I've got to use DHCP to lease a dynamically assigned address from the

Re: [newbie] DHCP trouble with Comcast.net

2002-01-21 Thread George Czerw
Steve, I'm NOT using a separate firewall, but it sounds like you have a bad DHCP configuration, and you could run into this problem whether you have a firewall or just a single machine. 1. Make sure that /etc/resolv.conf contains the IP addresses of the Comcast DNS servers in your area AND