<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Chris G <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cl@isbd.net">cl@isbd.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The problem is specific to my desktop machine (the xubuntu one) which<br>
is the one which is running dnsmasq. When a web site is hung on my<br>
machine it's perfectly accessible from browsers on other machines on<br>
the same subnet/LAN and using the same router. However IE within a<br>
virtual machine on my machine *can't* access the hung web site.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I'm a little confused here. dnsmasq is more for servers than desktops. Of course, you can run it where you like, but it looks like you have your desktop acting as a DHCP server, possibly to itself. Or do you ensure the machine is on all the time the other machines on the network need an IP? You won't get any benefit (that I can think of) running dnsmasq on a stand-alone desktop. The OS will cache DNS lookups very similarly on its own.<br>
<br>I think it may be causing your problem if your DHCP expires and is trying to renew and is in a weird loop because they're the same machine. That would look like "web surfing" problems to most people; have you tried other network connections when the lockups occur? How about ifconfig's output?<br>
<br>Aaron<br><br></div></div><br>