Monday = no more Internet in localapps????

[Joseph Hartman]

Hi all,

Apparently over the weekend the district did something to the network that
has disabled Internet access on my thin clients. The server has Internet
access, but the clients do not. This is the case across multiple servers so
it must be something systemic and it doesn't have to do with any Ubuntu
updates because I imaged a server from a working image and it has the same
problem.

Anyways, I initially connected my XP laptop to the LTSP network and couldn't
get Internet, which means NAT wasn't working. Then I changed to our
alternate DNS server address in dhcpd.conf on the server, renewed the DHCP
lease on my laptop it gets Internet! I tried it with an Ubuntu laptop and it
works too.

The clients still don't get Internet though. I thought this might mean the
problem was with the first DNS server, but I restarted the DHCP server,
restarted the clients with new IP addresses (and I assume the updated DNS
server address), and I still have the same problem. If I don't use localapps
the Internet works just fine.

Finally, it seems like firefox as a localapp is taking way longer to load in
the first place than it used to. I'm not sure what would cause this, but if
any of you have any insight I'd appreciate it. I'm waiting on a call back
from the district and I'd love to know what to ask of them (if anything).
Thanks -joe

P.S. how do I see what the client's network information is and force a DHCP
lease renew? When I use terminal on a client I just see the server's
information.
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