Hi * I'm using a SuSE 7.2 Box with SuSEfirewall2 (installed from RPM) to Masquarde my Network at home using my DSL - Connection. Everything works fine, till the one Point: When i loose my Internet-Connection due to a 24h disconnect, reboot or 'playing around with the pppoed' I have the following problem: By default I do the following steps in a cronjob: test if pppoed is running if not, stop everything and restart all the things /sbin/checkproc /usr/sbin/pppoed24 || { /etc/rc.d/pppoed stop > /dev/null sleep 2 /etc/rc.d/pppoed start > /dev/null sleep 5 /usr/bin/killall ddclient sleep 1 /usr/sbin/ddclient /root/bin/settime.sh >/dev/null sleep 2 } It works but with one problem: I have a network masquaraded and when i loose connection and re-establish connection i can ping from the hosts that are masquaraded, but i can not resolve any DNS-Names. I can see no drops in the firewall logs, so everything is ok.. and after 5-10 Minutes DNS-lookups are working. So why does it take 5 Minutes till Namelookups are working on the masquarded hosts? Thx for any hints Jan -- NEVER MESS WITH IDIOTS. FIRST THEY LOWER YOU TO THEIR LEVEL AND THEN THEY BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE!