Help OS X cannot browse internet

[paninari]

Hello everyone

First of all I want to let everyone know that I'm not very familiar with OS X so please bare with me.

I just got a Powerbook G4 15 1GHZ , this is my first apple notebook, last year I got the iMac as soon as they came out, and I have been using it for home use (office, internet browsing, cd burning, etc)

At home I have DSL connection shared through a Windows XP and a Wireless network.
I was able to set up the airport network and everything worked ok from home, file sharing, computer browsing, internet browsing.

I took the computer to work where I am going to use the built ethernet, I gave the computer a fixed ip address, configured the DNS, the router but here is where my problems start, with the configuration I set up (basically the same as my home configuration) I am able to browse the network (windows domain computers), I am able to use MSN messenger (so I know I have internet access), I can ping any web addres (example, if I ping www.fark.com , I get the name resolved and get response from the server) but I cannot get the pages to load in safari, or internet explorer.

Anyone out there have an idea?

Thanks

Angel Mora
jmoraATsewsusDOTcomDOTmx
(you know what to change to get my email address)

 

[Lycander]

What kind of router do you have a work? Brand name/model #. I've come across some routers that if set to DHCP, it will only allow DHCP clients to use NAT to share the Internet connection. Even though you give you PB a valid IP address the router might not like that.

Does anyone else in your office use a static IP address? Is DHCP used on that router? If yes, go ahead and setup the built in ethernet port to use DHCP, give it the router's IP address and see if you have better luck.

 

[paninari]

It's a cisco router, and it does accept fixed addresses, here at work all of our servers have fixed ip addresses, and the rest of the computers get thir address using DHCP.

I already set up DHCP in this computer, and I get the same problem, I get a dynamic IP Address, and I can start up messenger, I can ping web addresses, but I cannot get safari or IE to display them.

The current IP address I'm using, used to belong to our old proxy server, so I know that this address is working, and has a way through the firewall (I tested the address on another pc, windows)