[ug-bosug] Unable to access the web from SXDE 9/07

[Zoram Thanga]

All,

I have a BSNL broadband connection at home, using one of those Huawei 
ADSL modems. I have installed SXDE 9/07 on my laptop, configured a 
static IP address (same as that used on WinXP installed on the same 
laptop), DNS, the works. I am able to ping the DNS servers (61.1.96.69 
and 61.1.96.71), but when I try to connect to the web using Firefox, FF 
is not able to resolve the URL's. My home setting is a direct connection 
to the Net without using a proxy server. I am at a loss as to what could 
be the problem.

The strange thing is that the same configuration (as far as I can 
remember) has been working, with the same SXDE version, until I 
re-installed the laptop after a failed attempt to install SNV_79. It's 
as though the ADSL modem is blocking outbound connection attempts if 
they're coming from Solaris!

Has anyone got a similar home set-up that's working? Any thoughts about 
settings I might have overlooked?

Thanks,
Zoram

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