Marg,

DNS setting in the network are:

207.155.183.72
207.155.183.73


/etc/resolv.conf:

; generated by /sbin/ehclient-script
search corporate
nameserver 207.155.183.72
nameserver 207.155.183.73


I tried pinging both www.ibm.com and its ip address...and nothing came up....

So...somewhere, it is not getting past my network router.....cisco 1720 (t-1line)

What about a gateway setting on the linux box....I dont see where you put that info in anywhere. That might be the issue....why i can ping internally, but not externally!!

The firewall on windows may not be configured yet to allow it access.

Fancy,

firewall in windows...if you mean the firewall on my corp. network....it is not on the server...it is built into the cisco router...


so, how would it allow all my other windows clients to surf, but not the linux box?

I have no idea. I never have used a cisco router so I have no idea on how it would be configured. However, I do know good firewalls have to be specifically confugured to allow clients to be let through to the internet.

I do know also that the non-standard "standards" that Windows uses makes it difficult to do a lot of stuff.

Fancy,

Oh...no big deal. My firewall is configured to allow all traffic out...but limits what comes in...

Still working on it....it seems that i can not get the machine to "see" the outside world...and it can ping anything on the inside.

hmmm?

Redhat two promising hits using search for "gateway":

Files in /etc/sysconfig on a Red Hat Linux System

Network Config Tips 3

You might want to look at your routing tables. The 'route' command shows them. There is also a 'Route' tab in the previously mentioned redhat-config-network when you select your NIC and click 'Edit'. Maybe your need to add a route or something???

Maybe also try a 'host www.ibm.com' command and see what the output tells you.

i added the following lines to the /etc/sysconfig/network file:

GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
GATEWAYDEV=eth0

Well,

I took another Linux box home (Mandrake 9.1) and hooked it up to my DSL, using DHCP....and Bam! Its online. I was having the same problem with this machine as i was with the RH9 in my corporate office.

THere is something that is not allow the linux boxes to resolve names on the internet.

Are there any DHCP setting that i need to check on my Windows 2000 server? Do i need to run any other protocols or services so that Linux will work?

Any differerent ports that Linux uses compared to Windows?

Thanks for all your help today!

Well,

I took another Linux box home (Mandrake 9.1) and hooked it up to my DSL, using DHCP....and Bam! Its online. I was having the same problem with this machine as i was with the RH9 in my corporate office.

THere is something that is not allow the linux boxes to resolve names on the internet.

Are there any DHCP setting that i need to check on my Windows 2000 server? Do i need to run any other protocols or services so that Linux will work?

Any differerent ports that Linux uses compared to Windows?

Thanks for all your help today!

Hmmm. I dunno man. Pretty crazy. As far as ports and that go, it's all standard stuff. It's gotta be something on that network for some reason. I don't know if you tried this yet, but maybe if you use the route command to add a gateway instead (or in addition to) putting the settings in that /etc/sysconfig/network file.

The route man page has an example of that, it says to do something like:

'route add default gw <gateway-ip>'

Check it out on the man page. Try that and then just type the 'route' command by itself to make sure that it shows it correctly. It should say something like:

Default <your-gateway> 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

That's how mine looks anyway. But even that is weird because I didn't have to put it in manually, DHCP just found it for me.

Anyway, try that and see what happens?!?

Yea...i agree....it was so cool to see it working on the net!!!!

I am going to try connecting to my DMZ card (firewall bypass) and put it on a static ip scheme. If that does not work...then I will need to call my ISP. If it does work...there is something in my firewall that is not allowing it to resolve names.

Thanks for the help