Topic: Totally Stumped on a probable DNS glitch

[garywowen]

I have SME6 in server gateway mode. It serves a wirless lan on an industrial park. One of my clients cannot access a specific website. Everything else is fine but for some reason my gateway just times out when the address is entered. If I connect to another server on my network it works. I'm not a linux guru so I've no idea what's going on - any ideas?

[Franco]

Can you ping the site when you're behind the SME? Could be related to DNS, have you applied the upgrades?

[garywowen]

The SME is fully updated via Yum and still the problem. I cannot ping the site from SME (it resolves its IP but doesn't get back a response), however I also tried to ping it on my network where the website IS visible and doesn't get a response either - so their router must have ping responses disabled.

[Franco]

1- Do a

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rpm -q e-smith-tinydns and report back
2- Make sure this site is not being served on a unusual port (Squid only caches specific ports)

[raymondw]

Lookes like a problem I saw a while ago.
Primary machine could acces a specific external site, but secondary could not.
Differance was the proxy setting, my primary machine wasn't unsing SME as proxy.
After setting the secondary machine to a proxy less setup all workes oké.

[garywowen]

Thanks for the replies. I ran reconfig and set DNS to my ISP's and it worked - I wonder if anyone else has problems with http://www.vauxhall.co.uk through SME using its own DNS?