On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 18:28 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
Hi, Sorry - newbie to fedora, and google is driving me mad !
I've just setup up a F17alpha box, and am trying to ping the internet from behind my Ubuntu proxy server, which also runs bind.
I have set GATEWAY in /etc/sysconfig/network I have put nameserver 192.168.0.1 into /etc/resolv.conf I have done a export http_proxy=http://192.168.0.1:3128
I have done a /etc/init.d/network restart
and I still cannot ping by IP nor by dnsalias name
Ping what?? You won't be able to ping outside your proxy at all unless you allow your hosts to bypass the proxy (which would sorta elliminate the idea of the proxy in the first place).
What IP and network did you give your fedora box? Setting up the proxy cannot be done until you have basic networking up. In other words, based on the above, your fedora box need to have an address in 192.168.0.x - and it needs to then be connected to a hub/switch that allows access to 192.168.0.1. Once done, you test with ping to 192.168.0.1. There's a chance you run with a "angry" firewall on 192.168.0.1 which could be blocking your pings, but if you say you can ping it from other hosts, that's obviously not the case.
but this all works from other ubuntu boxes, and of course from the server machine itself. I can also ping all the PCs on my internal network.
That includes the proxy server? If so, everything is working according to the setup.
Please can someone tell me my deliberate mistake in this regard.
Proxy servers blocks you from direct access to the outside network. It's why proxy servers are mostly used - to deny direct access to the workstations. That means pings too.
TIA, Zoltan
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