Try ping www.whatever.com (hit Control-C to stop it after a bit)
Is there a less than 100% packet loss?
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Tigger Cervantes wrote:
> HI!!
> I'm a real newbie and am having a bit of a problem with my PPP dial-up
> connection. I'm running redhat 5.2 and used linuxconf to setup a ppp
> connection to my ISP. When I run it I hook up, run ifconfig and see
> that it's running, but when I run Lynx it tells me that www.whatever.com
> is a badly formed address. I can't run ftp or mail because I get the
> same type of message. What's going on? I can't think of any reason it
> would do this. I set it up almost the exact same way on 5.0 no problem.
> Any ideas? If someone could point me in the right direction I would be
> forever grateful!!
>
> Thanks in Advance!
> Tigger
>
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