Ah, but not necessarily so. I installed an embedded Linux firewall/modem for my father, the Actiontec DualPC modem. The Linux firewall/modem knew the DNS servers for the ISP and was providing DHCP for my father's PC, but I was still having problems getting to some sites. Once I added the ISP DNS server's IP addresses to the PC, then the problem was gone. Now I'll grant you that the PC is running WinXP, not Linux, but it was still a simple matter of making sure the box inside the firewall knows which DNS servers it should "query". And then again, I could be totally off base. But hey, it's worth a shot. :-) Scot Jenkins wrote: > Todd Young wrote: > >>I'm with Scott on this one. The IPCOP machine may know your ISP's DNS >>servers, but chances are your Mandrake box does not, all is see's is the >>IPCOP box, but it doesn't know any DNS info. You need to tell your >>Mandrake box where to get it's DNS info, which would be your ISP's DNS >>server IP addresses. > > > that is unless your Mandrake box is getting it's IP address from the > IPcop firewall via DHCP, in which case it should get the DNS servers > from the DHCP server (presumably running on the IPcop box). > -- Todd Young 7079 Dawn Ave. E. Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list