cahit Eyigünlü wrote: > this is given by datacenter and 188.72.255.188 my webserver's static ip > That doesn't make sense. They should give you a gateway address that is within the range of your own IP's netmask. If it works at all under any OS it must be because the gateway router is proxy-arp'ing for anything it can reach. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com