License issue?

[jsurtees]

Wingate 5.2.3, Windows 2000 Professional SP4, 6 systems connected to Wingate machine, 6-user license.

Up until about a week ago all Internet connections worked well. It was an ISDN connection. Broadband is now used, with a router.

Now, Internet pages appear, then the next page may come up with 'Not found' but on a refresh they do appear.

As the Internet connection is now 'always on', email checking is more frequent, at least two of the systems are checking for news alerts and more browsing is taking place, could this problem be licensing?

I think what I am trying to ask is if a couple of computers are checking email and news and also browsing the Internet all at the same time, could this stop other systems from downloading pages temporarily as more than six connections are being attempted?

Thanks

Jackie

[adrien]

Hi

If it is a licensing issue, WinGate will block a page with a message about exceeding the license count. DNS still works, so you wouldn't get "page not found".

If you have changed your access, your ISP has also changed? It is most likely a DNS configuration issue in WinGate. You may need to:

a) manually enter a DNS server to use in WinGate's DNS resolver configuration

b) if you have another DNS server on your LAN (i.e. an Active Directory server), and your WinGate machine is also participating in the AD, then usually your DNS settings for the network adapters on the WinGate machine will point to the internal AD server. If so, then you would need to use the WGOptions application to exclude the AD server from being used by WinGate also as a DNS server (since that may then create loops).

Cheers

Adrien