[thechat] Win2k Net access problem
Hugh Blair
hblair at hotfootmail.com
Wed Nov 28 20:31:55 CST 2001
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of judah at wiredotter.com
> Subject: RE: [thechat] Win2k Net access problem
>
> Your Linksys router should be running some sort of firewall. I believe
> that it does port blocking in addition to NAT. But since your other
> machines can access the Internet fine, we'll assume that its not a router
> port-blocking issue, but rather something machine specific.
Yep - I agree.
> One thing that I did notice is that in the advanced TCP/IP settings, you
> have mntp1.il.home.com set up as a DNS suffix. This will get added to the
> end of any unqualified domain names. Possibly, those apps that
> are failing because the system thinks they are sending unqualified domain
> names and is tacking on stuff to the end of the request. It's a bit far
> fetched, but possible. Try removing that entry, so that there isn't a DNS
> suffix.
OK - did that - rebooted. No change, the same programs still can't see the
Internet.
> Also, could you post a screen shot of the ipconfig output? Open up a
> command prompt and type 'ipconfig /all'. This should show all of the info
> that was set by the dhcp server as well as the manually entered info.
OK - that screen shot is up -
> You might also check your hosts file (C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
> or wherever your system is) and make sure that there aren't any odd
entries
> in there.
That screen shot it also up.
New screen shots on new page at:
http://www.hotfootmail.com/more.html
Still linked from:
http://www.hotfootmail.com/netindex.html
> I'll try to think of more things later.
And I really appreciate your help, Judah.
-Hugh
> HTH,
> Judah
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