small network problem

[Gerry Doris]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, James Conner wrote:

> Here's a site that has a Step-by-Step using the gui to configure Mandrake 9.0 
> to WinXP.  Dunno if this will help or not.
> 
> http://www.tweakhound.com/mdk9/mdk9net.htm
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Sunday 20 July 2003 10:35 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > At 08:22 PM 19/07/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> > >--- Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 19 July 2003 07:51 am, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > > > > Is DNS working on the Linux box? (if that's where you are
> > > >
> > > > running it from)
> > > >
> > > > No AFAIK, its just setup by mandarke to share the net.
> > >
> > >Whoa, wait a minute...what about your
> > >
> > >/etc/hosts.allow file....is your subnet permitted to
> > >connect?
> >
> > As I have said before my memory will not work re networking anymore.
> > I used the Mandrake Control Centre to share the internet it has worked
> > perfectly before.
> > I Do NOT remember how to do networking via a command line. If I do not do
> > something often the I totally forget how I did it, 2 weeks is too long to
> > retain
> > memory.
> >
> > Sorry but it has to be explained in very simple step[ terms for me these
> > days. A cryptic question as you ask means nothing to me. That is why partly
> > why I unsubbed.
> > ITS bloody frustrating.
> >
> >
> > Skippy

I've missed most of this thread but may be of help...

I just upgrade my gateway server from RH 7.3 to 9 yesterday.  In the 
process I lost connection to my ISP's DNS servers.  It turned out that 
somehow the default route to the internet had become my internel network.

You can check if that's the problem by just entering

route

on the command line.  Check what the default gw line says.  It should be
your ISP's server.  If it's not correct then you can del it and add the
correct gw address using the route command.

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer