Ping, but no internet
I have a home network with 4 boxes behind a SmoothWall and a DLink 614+ used as a wireless access point.
Four clients are 192.168.30.1 - 4, the SmoothWall is 192.168.30.250, the DLink is 192.168.30.100.
All the clients but one are behaving well. The XP box sees all the boxes on the LAN and it will ping the Smoothie and the DLink. It also pings YAHOO.com and other internet sites.
I can access the Smoothwall through IE.
However, an attempt to access the DLink through IE yields a "connection refused" error, as well as any attempt to access internet sites, either w/ IE or w/ Netscape.
The XP is configured w/ a static IP of 192.168.30.1 w/ Subnet 255.255.255.0 and the Gateway and DNS Server are set to the Smoothwall.
Everything looks the same as the boxes that are happy on the network, but this one surely does not connect.
What do I do now?
Capt
Four clients are 192.168.30.1 - 4, the SmoothWall is 192.168.30.250, the DLink is 192.168.30.100.
All the clients but one are behaving well. The XP box sees all the boxes on the LAN and it will ping the Smoothie and the DLink. It also pings YAHOO.com and other internet sites.
I can access the Smoothwall through IE.
However, an attempt to access the DLink through IE yields a "connection refused" error, as well as any attempt to access internet sites, either w/ IE or w/ Netscape.
The XP is configured w/ a static IP of 192.168.30.1 w/ Subnet 255.255.255.0 and the Gateway and DNS Server are set to the Smoothwall.
Everything looks the same as the boxes that are happy on the network, but this one surely does not connect.
What do I do now?
Capt
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Comments for all the experts:
RPalmeira22 -- I have tried the hard-wired connection versus the wireless one -- both behave exactly the same.
Giles -- Basic and what an easy solution it would be. But everything has been rebooted many times, w/ no results.
Purple-- I was excited to try this solution. Yes, only one misbehaving machine. No proxies defined, however, which mirrors the settings on the other boxes that work.
Rindi--Smoothwall acts as DNS server, and does it well for 3 of 4 machines. I double-checked all the settings to see that there were no typos.
Strangely, the behaviour seems as if the DNS is not set correctly and I fully expected to see something amiss there, but nothing seems to be out of place except that no browser can actually access the internet.
Experts, is there something I've overlooked?
RPalmeira22 -- I have tried the hard-wired connection versus the wireless one -- both behave exactly the same.
Giles -- Basic and what an easy solution it would be. But everything has been rebooted many times, w/ no results.
Purple-- I was excited to try this solution. Yes, only one misbehaving machine. No proxies defined, however, which mirrors the settings on the other boxes that work.
Rindi--Smoothwall acts as DNS server, and does it well for 3 of 4 machines. I double-checked all the settings to see that there were no typos.
Strangely, the behaviour seems as if the DNS is not set correctly and I fully expected to see something amiss there, but nothing seems to be out of place except that no browser can actually access the internet.
Experts, is there something I've overlooked?
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Have you tried using a proper browser, like mozilla's firefox? If firefox works and ie doesn't, check the settings you have there.
Doesn't sound like DNS if you can ping hosts on the internet by name.
The Firefox suggestion is a good one as that would indicate whether the problem is IE specific or not.
The Firefox suggestion is a good one as that would indicate whether the problem is IE specific or not.
The asker has already tried Netscape, which determines that the problem is not IE specific. This means that my reinstall advice for IE should be skipped, and I would start with the reinstall Winsock.
Thinking about it, another thing to try would be to swap the IP address of the machine that doesn't work with one of those that does... this would double check that the Smoothwall isn't blocking that IP. This is along the lines of rpalmeira22's suggestion.
Now that you mention it, I remember too!
Anyway still use firefox and not ie, except for the autoupdates...
:-)
Anyway still use firefox and not ie, except for the autoupdates...
:-)
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Thanks for all the help, guys. Wound up reformatting the drive because of other issues that were starting to crop up. Of course, that reinstalls Winsock, which I'm sure was the source of the trouble.
Capt
Capt
thanx
Only on the one machine though, yes?
- Go into Control Panel, Internet Options.
- Click Connections tab, then click LAN Settings button.
Are there any proxies defined? If so, ensure they are the same as on the other machines.