[luau] Network problem

al plant webmaster at hawaiidakine.com
Wed Jul 2 16:02:00 PDT 2003


> > I have my friends Windows 98 box which runs behind a Linux/unix firewall
> > router. It stopped resolving the IP addresses to the domain names on
> > this box.
> > The Netscape nor Explorer will not recognize the names. I cant ping from
> > this box by name either, but using the  IP address I can ping ok.
> > Anybody know what resolves the name to the IP in Windows 98 that could
> > be
> > not set or screwed up?
> >
> > Thanks.

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Thanks for the tips.

I tried 2 IP addresses in the TCP/IP settings and it came up finally.

The other Win 98 boxes on the lan don't have to have a real IP in there
to come up and surf the internet from inside my network.

Very Strange.
 
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