There may be more also, but here is what I found.
hazzmat wrote:
>
route the pppd ->ppp0 but it does have a file I've
> never seen before for PPP: /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial .
> I made a file /etc/ppp/peers/diald thinking ppp
WVdial will not work with diald. AFAIK
> will only accept orders from programs with a file
> in this peers directory but that didn't fix it.
> You can tell I don't know squat about networking
> by now so I'll go ahead and disclose all my
> laughable misconfigurations.
> etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> localhost.localdomain
> 192.168.1.1 myhostname
> localhost.localdomain ##it
This should be myhostname.localdomain
> doesn't seem to matter how I change these around
> altho I'm sure there's a problem here since
>
> ### I get that hostname lookup failure message
> starting X
> route -n
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask
> Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255
> UH 0 0 0 eth0
> 219.245.203.151 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255
> UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0
> U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0
> U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 219.245.203.151 0.0.0.0
> UG 0 0 0 ppp0
>
> /etc/resolv.conf
> search localdomain
localdomain should be your isps name
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