On Wednesday 21 August 2002 09:16, you wrote: > Running Mandrake 7.2 > I'm having a weird problem .. Today I was dinking around w/ a gui e-mail > client (One installed as part of kde) and after running it for the first > time I am unable to > get an outgoing internet connection, as a matter of fact I can't even ping > anything. The key word here is OUTGOING CONNECTION. Incoming connections > (I have a web-server on the machine) work fine. > I checked the route entries and they look like they did when outgoing > connections were working. What else can I check/change that may get me > closer to a solution. > > - PJ If you are running a firewall on a separate box, check your dns entries in /etc/resolv.conf against the ones given by dhcp on the firewall box. AT&T just changed my dns servers and all my internal boxes lost connectivity till I changed the resolv.conf dns entries. I should probably set up dhcp internally and hand out the current dns at that point using a script, but I guess I will just manually update the boxes for now. Kelly Black KB0GBJ