Most assuredly if it takes this long, it is a DNS issue. Check your hosts file and if you are not running a DNS server, put in your ISPs DNS.
Also, you you have your gateway in SUSE set up for the internal IP address of your Linksys? Typically 192.168.1.1
-- okay Hi okay, Sorry to be so dense. I tried to research DNS on the web and have read a lot about DNS, mainly servers, before bothering you all again. My LAN side is 4.18.22.142. Our former network guru liked that and all
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:31, okay wrote: the Windows boxes work with that gateway. The WAN is DHCP to the cable modem. If I type 4.18.22.142 in a browser URL, it asks for a Linksys login. Anyway, I was trying to determine what exactly to put in the /etc/hosts file. My ISP is www.atlanticbb.net. The host command shows its IP address to be 208.197.227.20. I put that in the hosts file with the URL in the hostname column and rebooted to no avail. I could put the DNS IP addresses in that are under the TCP/IP DNS entries and show in the /etc/resolv.conf file on a nameserver line. However, I'm not sure what to enter as the hostname for those 2 addresses. A DNS server (named) is not running. Could I ask what exactly goes in /etc/hosts for the ISP's DNS? Thanks. jcp