loose email/internet connection, but winmx stays connected

[dapperwin]

I'm running win98se, using firefox as a browser, outpost as a firewall. within the past month or so, I've noticed that when I've been running winmx (ver. 3.53)  for several hours (or overnight), I loose the ability to receive/send email or surf the internet using my browser. Winmx is still running, and appears just fine. If I were to exit winmx, my internet connection returns and I can then receive emails and surf the web. I seems that winmx is 'locking' up the connection somehow. Any thoughts? thanks.

[Lagerlout666]

I had this issue for awhile not too long ago and it was down to a dns issue. I assume when you say that you have no internet you have tried loading a web page and it brings back a a failed page. I duno what set up you have but i found it down to a bad dns when using the pppoe dialer built into windows. Worth a try and only seemed to occur to me after a long spell like yourself, but the connection was still live. Worth a try and their are plent of DNS places to point to. i just picked the one at the bottom of the list provided by my isp, i imagined everyone else may have picked the top one lol.

[J a M e S]

this happened to me some time ago, while runing MCS  anything that was currently connected and was online would stay connected untill it disconect then nothing, restarting MCS fixed this ssue, still dont know thecause, probably what tiny said was more usefull