[Gllug] Unable to access web sites via smoothwall

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 16 Sep, Laurence Turpin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed smoothwall 0.98 on a P100 system, I have an external modem
> which is just an ordinary 3com fax modem.
> the smoothwall system is connected to my home network. When I go into a web
> browser from a client machine, I can get the smoothwall administration pages
> and have been able to set it up so that dial up and connect to my ISP
> successfully, Hangup and shutdown smoothwall.
> The problem is when smoothwall is up and running and I have connected to my
> ISP I cannot use the web browser to visit web sites. So for example if I try
> to go to www.bbc.co.uk I get the message that the host I requested cannot be
> found. The same thing happens if I try to ping a web site on the internet. I
> have tried setting the DNS and Gateway options on the client machine to the
> smoothwall ip address but it still does not work.
> Please help I am stuck now.
> 
> 
> 
> 
   Have you tried putting your ISP's DNS server addresses into smoothwall,
and pointing your system towards the internal port of smoothwall for local
DNS queries?

-- 
Chris Bell


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