[Gllug] Unable to access web sites via smoothwall

[Laurence Turpin]

Hi Chris,

Thankyou for replying.
Yes I have put the ISPs DNS addresses into smoothwall.
It now works ok with windows 98, but not Mandrake 8.2
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bell" <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk>
To: "GLLUG List" <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Unable to access web sites via smoothwall


> 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?
>
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> Chris Bell
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