On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Charles E. Gelm wrote:
> The 'lynx' suggestions worked on local files, didn't work on URLs.
>
Probably because your nameservering isn't working.
> My LAN:
>
> k6 linux-2.0.34 (slakware 3.5.0) IP-MASQ, modem, ether-16/ct (ne2000 clone)
> tiger windoze 95, ether-16/ct (ne2000 clone)
> dx80 windoze fer workgroups 3.11, wdc8003ep
>
> After running ppp-go, I can ping my ISP by numerical address (207.0.229.###),
> but not by domain (www.erinet.com|erinet.com)
>
> I can ping all of my LAN computers, but only the linux (k6) can ping my
> ISP and only by dotted-numeric.
What do ipfwadm -F -l and ipfwadm -M -l give?
> ping www.erinet.com
> ping: unknown host www.erinet.com
>
> ping erinet.com
> ping: unknown host erinet.com
>
> lynx http://www.erinet.com
> lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.erinet.com
>
All of these indicate that there is something wrong with your nameserver.
> /etc/resolv.conf (oops)
> was now
> domain erinet.com search nc8q.org
> search erinet.com domain erinet.com
> nameserver 198.6.245.102 same
> END
That should work. If you are running named then you might want to add
nameserver 127.0.0.1 before the other nameserver line, but it should work
without it.
>
> /etc/host.conf
> order hosts, bind
> multi on
> END
>
> /var/log/syslog
> Oct 11 09:06:13 k6 named[145]: can't change directory to /var/named: No such file or
> directory
> Oct 11 09:06:13 k6 named[145]: can't change directory to /var/named: No such file or
> directory
named is badly configured - it is looking in /var/named which presumeably
doesn't exist. Somewhere you should have a named.ca, which named needs to
find. It is looking in /var/named at the moment.
If you don't have a named.ca then
$ mkdir /var/named
$ touch /var/named/named.ca
I'm not sure it'll fix it, but its worth a try :)
> Oct 11 12:34:38 k6 pppd[300]: ppp not replacing existing default route to
>eth0[0.0.0.0]
> Oct 11 13:26:36 k6 pppd[466]: ppp not replacing existing default route to
>eth0[0.0.0.0]
Ah. This is the problem. You have a default route set to route
everything to eth0 (ie the ethernet card) instead of sending it over your
ppp link. I don't know exactly how slackware's initscripts work, but what
you need to do is remove the line in (I think) /etc/rc.d/rc.network that
reads something like
route add default ......
This should fix the nameserver problems...
HTH
--
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I came, I saw, I deleted all your files.
