On Friday, July 15, 2005 @ 7:53 AM, James Wright wrote:
Quoting Greg Wallace <jgregw@acsalaska.net>:
On Thursday, July 14, 2005 @ 12:54 PM, James Wright wrote: So all of the internet traffic on your network funnels through two machines that are running Windows Server operating systems, you connect through those servers from your Linux machines, and you can get to some external web sites and not others. Is that what you're saying?
Greg Wallace
Yes, the two Windows servers run the DNS. Beyond that is a SonicWall Firewall (not the problem, I checked), and then a high speed DSL. All PCs and thin clients are attached to D-link switches. Again, all Windows machines can browse all, Suse machines can browse only some. I cannot ping, say, www.sonicwall.com or browse to it from Suse 9.2. Windows machines load www.sonicwall.com without a problem. In VMWare running Win2k on a Suse machine all pages load. I have to use VMWare just to check my e-mail. I am more than happy to post any information required for help. I really think it is a local DNS problem, as I can't even get to the webpage for the ISP we are using, with Suse. Thank you.
James W
You could try doing a complete end-around of your domain servers and let SuSE pick up the servers dynamically. I'm running an older version of SuSE, but you should be able to do something comparable to *) Connect a linux machine directly to your WAN *) Under "Host name and name server configuration" (or whatever it may be called now), select "Update name server list via DHCP. This should let SuSE scan your network and pick up any and all of the name servers that are out there (maybe you're missing one?). See if you can then get to those unreachable sites you mention. At least that way you can go back and look at the "Host name and name server configuration" and see what servers were picked up. Greg Wallace P. S.: I'm no expert in this area, but the above should (?) give you the full list of name servers that are reachable on your provider's network.