All sorted. Just me being a mong and not setting up the resolv.conf properly
Thanks Michael Tony Arnold wrote: > Michael, > > Michael Rimicans wrote: > >> Greetings. >> >> Can any one show me the error of my ways with the following: >> >> Have set up shorewall on a gateway system to provide security and net >> sharing duties. >> After banging my head against a wall it has finally allowed me to >> connect a networked computer through to the wifi router. >> >> Now heres where the problem lies. >> >> I'm able to connect to the router (192.168 blah blah) with no problems >> but when I try to surf elsewhere nothing >> happens. >> >> I'm able to ping the isp's dns server and get a reply and have tried >> placing the address in the resolv.conf file on the gateway with no joy. >> > > If you can ping from the client through the gateway and your router and > get a reply back, then basic routing seems to be working. > > Your comment above implies it may be a DNS problem. If you type > > host www.ubuntu.com > > in a terminal window, do you get a sensible response? > > Is the client getting its IP address and DNS information via DHCP from > the gateway? What has it provided for the address of the DNS server? If > it's the gateway, then you should check the gateway is configured to act > as a DNS proxy, or you could set the DNS address manually in the client > (edit resolv.conf) to the address of the ISP's DNS and see if that helps. > > Just some things I would look at. > > Regards, > Tony. > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
