Topic: Lost access to WWW after blade update

[Stewart Midwinter]

I searched through a month of messages and couldn't find a question like this, so...

I've just updated my e-smith server (I believe to 5.1.2, using the Blades feature), and now I've lost the ability to reach any websites using a browser, from any PC in my network.  Pinging, and e-mail, still works, and my e-smith server itself can view webpages with lynx.  

I presume I've got some kind of ipchains problem.  Can anyone point me in the direction of how to resolve this problem?  thanks!

ps. please remove the XXX from my e-mail address if you wish to reply off-line.

[Stewart Midwinter]

I tried to fix the problem by upgrading to 5.5.  But you need lots of spare hard drive space for that, so it didn't work. I then tried to simply install 5.5 from scratch, and it again failed on disk space (my drive is 800 MB).  so then I had to go back and re-install 5.1.2 from scratch, which did work.  But in the process I've lost my website and my database, so I will install a 2nd drive and try to put both there to guard against future similar situations.