[luau] Network problem

[Vince Hoang]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 07:04:20PM -1000, al plant wrote:
> 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.

How is DNS supposed to be handled inside the network?

> 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?

You can use ipconfig/winipcfg to check if the nameservers are set
properly.

Is there another system behind the gateway that is working? That
would help decide whether or not the problem really is with the
Win98 box.

-Vince