[ale] Linux router help needed......again

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:34, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:39, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>General background only to shorten email. Set up a Debian Sarge box as
> >>router for a WinXP box using dhcp3 and ipmasq for nat. Result: WinXp box
> >>gets ip address and indicates it is connected to lan but cannot access
> >>the internet. I have read every man I can find and have been unable to
> >>get anywhere for days now :-( Any help or a very complete read somewhere
> >>appreciated. Looking at the firewall it does not show any requests from
> >>it being dropped.
> > 
> > I have recurring issues with XP not being able to set the dns servers
> > based on the Linux dhcp server.  If the XP box is part of a domain (XP
> > Pro) it gets worse. The solution has been to set the dns manually on the
> > XP box 
> 
> This is interesting.  I don't seem to have a problem at all when using 
> smoothwall to provide dhcp services.  When it happens, was it permanent 
> until reboot or did it finally resolve the issue on it's own?

It was very confusing. The affected machines were working and then they
stopped working. They all had been rebooted and then refused to connect
correctly afterwards. The Linux server was not rebooted, but the XP
machines were manyh times. some would heal themselves after a reboot or
two, others just refused to work with out the manual DNS entry. Later
(week or so) it seemed to just all go away with no more problems. 

I suspect a broken XP update as the likely culprit.
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