Mozilla not working

Mozilla does not appear to be surfing the internet. I have a DSL router
connected to a Linux server with two NIC's.

The Linux machine I'm bring up I want to be a Linux server. I have two NIC
in the machine. One is connected to my Hub for the internal network and the
other is connected to my router. As I said earlier I can ping the router
with no problems I just can't get Mozilla to surf the internet. If I set
the proxy settings in Mozilla to my Windows proxy server/ISA 2000 then
everything works just fine. Since my DSL router has four ports I have the
internet NIC plugged in one. At the current time I have not set proxy in the
browser in an effort to get things working.

Thanks so much for you help I have been able to get connection to the router
working. I confirmed this by being able to ping the router. Which I think
was working all along. My real problem is with Mozilla. .

By the way I new to Linux moving from Windows.

It appears to be unable to talk to the NIC in order to surf the internet.
When I select a url I get the following message "www.redhat.com could not be
found. Please check the name an retry.".

More about my configuration:

Any input you may have is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Thanks for your help I tried the suggestion that you made however, I am
still un-successful. I established a DNS using the instruction from
"Mastering Linux 9" by Michael Jang publisher is sybex.

When I perform the "dig" command on my domain I get a time out message and a
server not found error.

When I perform a ping I get the message "Host unreachable". Can you give
me things to try. I really want to get this working.


Thanks


Louis

"Xyerp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Louis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Mozilla does not appear to be surfing the internet. I have a DSL router
> > connected to a Linux server with two NIC's.
> >
> > The Linux machine I'm bring up I want to be a Linux server. I have two
NIC
> > in the machine. One is connected to my Hub for the internal network and
the
> > other is connected to my router. As I said earlier I can ping the router
> > with no problems I just can't get Mozilla to surf the internet. If I
set
> > the proxy settings in Mozilla to my Windows proxy server/ISA 2000 then
> > everything works just fine. Since my DSL router has four ports I have
the
> > internet NIC plugged in one. At the current time I have not set proxy in
the
> > browser in an effort to get things working.
> >
> > Thanks so much for you help I have been able to get connection to the
router
> > working. I confirmed this by being able to ping the router. Which I
think
> > was working all along. My real problem is with Mozilla. .
> >
> > By the way I new to Linux moving from Windows.
> >
> > It appears to be unable to talk to the NIC in order to surf the
internet.
> > When I select a url I get the following message "www.redhat.com could
not be
> > found. Please check the name an retry.".
> >
> > More about my configuration:
> >
> > Any input you may have is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
> The networking (and other) HOWTO's may be of use to you. Take a look here:
>
> http://www.tldp.org

"Louis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<ouC_a.24714$(E-Mail Removed) igy.com>...
> Thanks for your help I tried the suggestion that you made however, I am
> still un-successful. I established a DNS using the instruction from
> "Mastering Linux 9" by Michael Jang publisher is sybex.

Jolly good. Which version? 9.2.2?

>
> When I perform the "dig" command on my domain I get a time out message and a
> server not found error.

What do the error logs say happened?

>
> When I perform a ping I get the message "Host unreachable". Can you give
> me things to try. I really want to get this working.
>

A ping to where??!

>
> Thanks

You may like to try the documentation available direct from the ISC. I
haven't read the book you mentioned, but likely it is outdated.

"Louis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<fjU%a.26578$(E-Mail Removed) igy.com>...
> I have tried to ping my ISP DNS server as well as the redhat domain. I have
> no problems when I ping my internal addresses or my router.
>
> If apply my Windows proxy to Mozilla everything works fine. I want my Linux
> platform to work independent of the my proxy. I want to fase in out.
>
> I appreicated any input you my have.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Louis

[snip]

Rather than trying to "ping" a DNS server, a better way to test it is
to issue a DNS query.

1.) telnet localhost 53

Does this connect? If not, then DNS is not running.

2.) If the local DNS server is running, try some queries using
"nslookup", "dig" or "host" - what is the output?