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Check the nameservers. Usually your system would point to the local

Hi all On Thu, 10 May, =?iso-8859-1?Q?James_&_Cyb=E8le?= wrote: proxy

machine as nameserver. If you have it set up with an external machine as primary nameserver, (which is normal for an ordinary dial-up non-proxied connection) then nobody on your network can find a web page (even in the local cache) without a connection to the www!

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Thanks for the advice. I thought, though, that pointing at my machine as name server would give me all sorts of other things to set up which I usually leasve to my ISP to work out?

It probably depends on which proxy software you are running; I can only speak from experience of Navaho, but literally all I had to do was point the local clients to the address of the local proxy server. Navaho automagically does whatever else is needed. The proxy server /does/ need to know the addresses of the external nameservers it is meant to look up, in just the same way as a stand-alone dial-up PC needs this information. This is what makes it a "proxy"... it does all the look-ups /on behalf of/ the clients. The client PCs don't know anything about the /real/ internet, all they need to know is the address of the local proxy box and the port numbers it listens out on. I daresay this is over-simplified, but it's how IUI. HTH Gary -- G M Locock, Network Manager Bablake Junior School, Coundon Road, Coventry, UK, CV1 4AU Tel: (+44) 24 7663 4052; Fax: (+44) 24 7663 3290 Web: http://www.bablakejs.co.uk Email: gml@bablakejs.co.uk