cant get out with anything other than firefox

[Guido Leisker]

Steve Searle wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 08:42 +0800, dsc21b at people.net.au wrote:
> the internet connection is working fine - firefox and other computers
> access the internet ok, on all levels.
> firefox is working fine, web mail is all i can use 

Can you please check you connection-settings in Firefox?
If there is 'direct Connection' checked the internet should also work
from other programms like ping.
If you are using a proxy to connect to the internet from a local network
it is absolute consequentially that you don't have a direct connection
to access a imap-server for example.
Otherwise please check you general internet settings.
'system-config-network'. Maybe there is no DNS-Server, so that you only
can reach websites whichs IP-Adress is cached.
Did you try to ping an IP-Address directly?

Guido

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