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I have installed suse linux onto my machine. I have a network of Windows machines connected to a router with DHCP going to the Roadrunner network. I have the machine up and running and the Samba is able to browse the windows machines just fine. I am also able to ping out to the internet and browse a website if I get the IP address. If I use a domain name the system just times out "most of the time". I don't know for some reason every once in a great while Mozilla will find the site I am looking for. Most of the time not. Everything is working for for the other machines. As far as I can tell things are setup pretty good on this end too but I have been chasing this around for 4 days and I am still not much closer in figuring out what could be wrong. Any ideas can help.
I have tried doing it both ways. The Windows boxes are just setup with DHCP resolving everything. I originaly to set up the linux box the same way. When that didn't work I configured it with a static IP and defined the gateway and DNS servers manualy. Roadrunner doesn't have their DNS servers posted so I tried using some others. That got me to a couple of sites (but not all) but after loading a few pages it stopped working again.
I had checked the Windoze machines and they were just pointing to the router/gateway. The linux machine originally was pointing to the same place when it wasn't working. I only changed it to try and force it to work.
As a fix, the version I was installing was Sun's Java Desktop version. I tried the SuSE Live Demo and it works fine. I am now trying to load the real version of SuSE and will see if that works.
I pretty sure it wasn't a bad install since I removed all of the partitions and tryied reinstalling from scratch. Several times. Same results every time. From the looks of it I think I am going to be happier with the "real" linux.
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