Hi all,
I am using PPP to access my ISP on a Debian (potato) machine. I have set up a
connection (as a matter of fact, more than one, to different ISPs - all with
the same result) with pppconfig and I am using pon/poff to connect/disconnet.
Everything looks just fine but I just can't get names resolved. If I try
something like "ping <IP NUMBER>" it works fine but if I try "ping
<HOSTNAME>" it gives me the unpleasant "Unknown host". The DNS server is
always online and i can get names resolver through "nslookup <HOSTNAME>"
Here's the most weird thing: I get a similar result ("Unknown host") if I use
any other net program (telnet, ssh, mail clients, KDE konqueror, etc) but
when I use Netscape (no proxies) everything works perfectly well!
My ISP uses static DNS (I've also tryed Dynamic DNS with another ISP).
Here are some of my files:
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/etc/host.conf (owner:root group:root permitions: 644)
order hosts, bind
multi on
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/etc/resolv.conf (owner:root group:root permitions: 644)
domain uol.com.br
nameserver 200.246.5.2
nameserver 200.30.0.97
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/etc/ppp/options (COMMENTS OMMITTED)
asyncmap 0
crtscts
hide-password
modem
proxyarp
lcp-echo-interval 30
lcp-echo-failure 4
noipx
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Here's the result of "netstat -rn":
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
200.231.86.226 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
0.0.0.0 200.231.86.226 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
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Does anyone know what the hell is going on? I trust you, Linux gurus the help
me through this. It's driving me crazy. And what makes me furious is to know
that it must be something really silly.
Thanks in advance,
Paulo Soares
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