[plug] routing problem

[Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)]

So.. what was the solution then?

Jon Miller wrote:
> Thanks Denis,
> But I suspect someone onsite may have hit the reset button on the router and has not admitted to it.  But we got things up and going again.
>
> Thanks Daniel and MyK.
>
> Jon
>
>   
>>>> dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au 9:16:17 am 7/06/2007 >>>
>>>>         
> Hello Jon.
>
> Not sure if this is relevant but yesterday myself and a colleague at UWA 
> had probs on Windows XP Pro machines where the DNS was screwed up.   In one 
> case it was because something called newdotnet had been installed (spyware? 
> trojan?) and not cleanly removed.   Thus the dns was hijacked and very odd 
> things would happen as a result.
>
> My case was not due to newdotnet so I am still digging :-(   This may be a 
> new threat?
>
> Not sure but my colleague's client may have been running Win 2000
>
> Of course none of this would result in router resets so could be COMPLETELY 
> different.
>
> HTH
> Denis
>
> At 12:21 PM 7/06/2007, you wrote:
>   
>> Can't figure out what the problem is but a client reported their access to 
>> the internet was down and when I went to look into it I found the router 
>> had been reset to factory defaults.  I configure this and the router was 
>> able to connect to the ISP.  I can ping from the server to the Internet 
>> and all is fine.  However, when I try to ping from a clients PC (Win2000 
>> Pro), I can only ping the server (Debian) on the internal interface. 
>> Cannot access the Internet from any workstation.
>>     
>
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