Hi gang,

once again I'm back for help.

We just brought DSL into the office, and I'm setting it up into our LAN thru the uplink on our old Linksys hub. For securtiy reasons, I'm only allowing internet access to our FC3 boxes (and perhaps a Yellowdog box).

I've run into a little trouble, mainly with Firefox. I can pull up some sites, but not others in Firefox 1.0!?!?!? For instance, I can't get Yahoo or Google to come up, yet I can PING both sites from a BASH shell. I can get umich.edu and umn.edu to come up just fine in firefox, as well as some others.

Konqueror works just fine however... Huh...

I could just set up Konqueror as our default browser I guess, but we all like Firefox a lot here in the office. Any ideas? Am I missing something?

any proxies/firewalls we should know about?

Thanks for the responce.

I have Devil LInix set up to use as a firewall once I get the rest of this stuff working, but at the motment I have that box by-passed. I figured one thing
at a time would be the best way to approch this issue since I'm rather new at setting up such things.

No proxies...

Their tech support told me that the router they set up provided the DNS settings and such, but I'm thinking that may not be right. I went into one of our
Linux boxes and set up the DNS settings manualy in the Network system setting and that seemed to make *some* difference. I also checked
the network settings in my home cable set-up on FC3 and it looks like I need DNS & other info to make that work so I'll give the DSL people another call
and ask them for more such info.

probe u Opera?

If u can access to google via konqueror, firefox must do the same...

Test another browsers; if the trouble is only with firefox, reinstall it

Hi,
I've just installed FC3 on a home PC and I'm having a similar problem when trying to access the Internet. I don't have any firewalls or proxies set up on my network... my router handles all DHCP and DNS stuff. I can ping any IP from a terminal, and I can access any website via Konqueror, however Mozilla and Firefox don't open any sites at all, nor does Thunderbird connect to my mail server, however I can still get on GAIM / Kopete / etc...

Any ideas? Is there any software I could have accidentally installed during my FC3 installation that restricts which programs can access the Internet?

/me is

Thanks for any help!

Just to add to the confusion a bit...
i've just noticed that I can access redhat sites through Firefox from the default links in the toolbar. Also, I can get to a site using the IP address (e.g. google.com = 66.102.11.99)... so the problem is something to do with DNS... any ideas?

have u tried running ur own nameserver

run this

service named start

then
add this line to the top of ur
/etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 127.0.0.1

regards

Nope, I didn't install the named service... Should I give that a try? What are the implications of running a nameserver on your home machine? Should it really be necessary?

Thanks!

hi there

thats is a caching nameserver
if it cannot resolve the hostname-->IP it will go to another DNS server

if u have problem in ur IP DNS server then think u can try this

regards

But... if it's just a problem with DNS caching, how come Konqueror/GAIM/Terminals don't have any problems, but some applications (Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla) do?

is it like that u have a problem in mozila everytime and u do not ever hava problem in konqueror any time??

regards

Yes, I never seem to have problems in Konqueror. I've just tried upgrading firefox to the latest version but that didn't seem to help. I think it's able to resolve the hostname, because it goes past the "searching for blahblahblah.com" to "connecting to blahblahblah.com", but that's where it times out...

Since this might be a Mozilla/Gecko related issue, try searching their forums for similar issues and solutions...

http://forums.mozillazine.org/

I think it's more to do with my network card than mozilla... i'm having problems using the RHN update program as well, where it won't retrieve the list of headers from the resource I specified. I tried switching the URL to a mirror (by updating /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources), and tested the URL in konqueror. The update utility then worked, but after I updated a few programs and played around for a bit, I tried to run the update utility again but it wouldn't fetch the headers, so I closed the update program, tried the URL in konqueror (to make sure the site hadn't gone down or anything crazy like that), then tried the update utility again, and it worked fine!

hmmm... the plot thickens...

Hi Garth,

I got the problem fixed at work. Its was with the DNS settings. I'm doig this from memory, so I may not be
qute right, but go in to your Network settings and see what your DNS settings say. FC3 looked like it
had changed them on me!!! IIRC, i changed it to 192.168.0.1 on our LAN which pointed to our router and
that did the trick.