Can't connect to internet

[mystified]

For some reason today when I tried to connect to the internet I received the following message - Could not locate remote server. I dual boot between Mandrake 9.1 and ME. When I checked DrakConnect under status it shows that I'm not connected but under LAN configuration it shows that it's up. But when I click on the connect button it shows that it failed to connect. When I first start Mandrake and it's going through the checks it also shows that I'm connected. This happened to me once before and I went into ME and ran ipconfig and released my ip address and that solved the problem but it didn't work this time. Any ideas? I can't call tech support because, needless to say, they don't support Linux and I really hate using Windoze!

 

TIA!

[Michel]

Do you have a firewall, maybe this is the problem..but I have the impression that it's only today...so maybe the server is under maintenance...???

[mystified]

Thanks Michel,

 

I installed shorewall but didn't even think about this causing the problem because I was able to connect to the internet after that. But I removed it and connected with no problem. Sheesh, why does it always have to be something obvious?

[onurb]

Install shorewall again and put " shorewall restart" in your /etc/re.d/rc.local.

I had the same problem with shorewall.

shorewall restart: stops, clears and starts your firewall again.

 

Bruno