General Questions

First time setup of a monowall.  Have it running from a CF card.  Everything seems to be set fine.  I can ping and browse to certain sites such as google but cannot get to other sites such as Yahoo.  Also cannot log in with ichat client.  Tried opening all the ports.. still no go.  Would much appreciate it if anybody has any insight into this.  I have changed DNS servers as well in the General settings if this helps.

Thanks ahead of time for your input.

Have you checked your gateway?  ie, hooking a computer straight into the ISP connection and seeing what comes back.

Sometimes in my area, my ISP just goes totally insane and I can't access anything except Google and Yahoo.

Thanks for the quick reply. The gateway is fine as I have a T1 running into a watchguard SOHO6 running on it now, which i take down and run the T straight into the WAN on the monowall.  Any other suggestions?

If you're desperate, as I find I often am when things break for seemingly no reason....my move would be to see if I could ping the IP addresses of the DNS servers from the monowall ping page.

Because if that ping works.....there's a higher force in the universe that hates it when your DNS works.

Beyond that...when I'm out of ideas while diagnosing, I just rebuild everything, starting from the point the problem appears to stem from....as crazy as it sounds, I've found that this seems to "scare" things into working again.  I hate the idea of solving scientific problems with what's practically superstition, but it's worked for me in the past, and I've had some ....insane things go wrong, but they smoothed out when I didn't change a single thing, I just rebuilt and reset everything the way it was when it stopped working.

Good luck

LOL yea that is exactly what I was thinkin this afternoon after staring blankly at the screen for an hour trying to make sense of something that I knew made none.  I reset it back to factory settings this afternoon before I left the office and gave it one final "you better work tomorrow" stare.

Thanks for your help.. I'll let you know how things go tomorrow.

Yep.....atleast computers are complex...it makes sense that they *can* go insane....kinda.....but once I had a set of speakers...that for no reason...no reason at all....decided to only play out of the left channel.....I went as far as to disassemble the cabinets that held the drivers.....saw nothing wrong....the problem persisted.....the sound would be present in both channels, and then the right channel would fade out....without cause.....after I turned them off, and back on again, I'd get another 5 minutes of stereo....and then....no more right channel again....I frantically checked all of the connections, everything was in place.....double...triple....quadruple checked, everything was fine.....but the problem wouldn't go away, so I gave up, I started looking to buy new studio monitors....but then, the next day...they were fine again, and they've given me *no* problems since that day.

I will never understand what went wrong that day.  Everything still works now.....the exact same way it was set up the day it broke.  I'm certain I lost a part of my mind that day.

LMAO.. I know that feeling waaaaay to well... Being in the computer biz for so long now I am usually the one that walks into the clients office and things just somehow start to work again.. but if its any of my personal stuff..forget about it.  Drives me insane LOL