From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Umm, wild stab in the dark.

Are you perchance running into one of the old 10 connection limits in
Windows Workstations being used as servers? (Don't know if any are actual
servers, but wasn't there something about some 10 connection limit on
workstations (non servers)?  Just a wild stab in the dark, probably not
applicable...

--
Glenn M.


"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
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> John,
>
> The setup that you assume is correct - I agree with your statement
> regaring the two external DNS-servers, too, but had them only installed
> because of this problem with WS1.
>
> The firewallsoftware is part of Winproxy and therefore on WS3, too. BTW, I
> have 11 WS in my network, plus 2 vitual ones by means of VMWare and one
> KISS DVDplayer (with internet access) and, apart from WS1, they all have
> internet access through the same gateway (192.168.0.9).
>
> WS1 can also ping WS3 (tried that before) and 4.2.2.2 'request timed out'
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Thees Peereboom
>
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:46:51 GMT, John Beckett
>  wrote:
>
> > "Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
> >> For some reason I seem able to browse the internal network but unable
to
> >> browse the internet.
> > I've been caught up ... let's try and sort this out!
> >
> > From what you've said I infer you have computers:
> >
> > WS1 - IP = 192.168.0.17  (problem computer)
> > WS2 - IP = 192.168.0.50  (working computer)
> > WS3 - IP = 192.168.0.9    (Winproxy to Internet and proxy DNS).
> >
> > On WS1and WS2 you have IP of DNS server = 192.168.0.9 and you have
> > default
> > gateway the same IP. At WS1 (and maybe WS2) you have a additional two
DNS
> > servers. Possibly not helpful because I would think that if 192.168.0.9
> > doesn't work then no other DNS server is likely to help either. However,
> > that is nor relevant to the current situation.
> >
> > You ran nslookup at command prompt on WS1 and it said that there was no
> > response from the DNS server 192.168.0.9. That sounds like a firewall
> > issue on WS1 (given that WS2 has no trouble using WS3 as its DNS server,
> > and WS1 can ping WS2).
> >
> > So, do you have firewall software installed, or any other form of IP
> > filtering? Have you ever had such software installed?
> >
> > At command prompt on WS1, what happens when you run:
> > ping 192.168.0.9
> > ping 4.2.2.2
> >
> > John
> >
>

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