Re: ICS not quite working

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From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:15:51 -0700

In article <58DF3DA2-1148-4CC9-B6A5-0C321769BF77@microsoft.com>,
"Jonno" <Jonno@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I want to share an internet connection in a shop with cash registers on fixed
>IP addresses in the 10.0.0.* range. The internet connection host IP address
>is 10.0.0.15 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0. The client IP address is
>10.0.0.102. The default gateway and DNS server are both set to 10.0.0.15.
>
>>From the client I can ping the host. I can also ping website hosts if I
>know the IP address. But I cannot get the web sites to render in explorer,
>with one exception.
>
>The exception is interactived.com (202.72.147.198 - my own web site). I can
>browse that site on the client computer. But I cannot browse Telstra.com
>(144.135.18.10) on the client computer. Yet I can ping 144.135.18.10 from
>the client computer.
>
>Can anyone suggest from this what is wrong and how I can fix it?

ICS sets the host's LAN IP address to 192.168.0.1. If I understand
your question, you've changed it to 10.0.0.15, which can cause ICS to
stop working properly.

Try setting the client's DNS server address to your ISP's DNS server. 

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