On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Chris Job wrote about, RE: can't surf the web or get my email:
> Ray, Adam,
> Thanks for responding so quickly. I'm sorry for the lack of info (did
> not know what would be required).
> Below is a list out of the commands you sugested I run.
>
> 1. When I ping my ISP (by name) I get the following response: ping:
> unknow host
You do not have your nameservers defined in /etc/resolv.conf
Check the documentations from your ISP, he should have given you at least 2
nameserver IP addresses those go into /etc/resolv.conf makeing it look
something like.
goodnews.net
nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx
nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx
search goodnews.net
> 2. When I enter the command ifconfig -a. The response is below:
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
>
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:209.50.107.209 P-t-P:206.112.216.30
> Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
> Memory:63f5038-63f5c04
>
> 3. When I enter the command route -n, the response is:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> 206.112.216.30 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
> ppp0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 3
> lo
> 0.0.0.0 206.112.216.30 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 3
> ppp0
>
> ** My ISP's IP number is 206.112.216.10
That all looks ok to me, you interface is up and running and you have a
route to your ISP and a default route via that host, check your ISP's
documemtation that that is the correct ip as well. It should be.
>
> Any idea what I should do next
> Thanks for the help
> Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 2:19 PM
> To: Chris Job
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: can't surf the web or get my email
>
>
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Chris Job wrote about, can't surf the web or get
> my email:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I was having some trouble with my email and my system finally died on
> > me. I had to re-install the linux software (Res Hat 5.2).
>
> There is nearly NEVER the need to reinstall inux, period.
>
> > I can successfully connect to my ISP but can not ping an IP, surf the
> > web or get fetchmail to poll my ISP's mail server. I am hoping that
> you
>
> You are not being very helpfull, if you mean you cant ping an IP with an
> IP
> number then you have many more problems that you think.
>
> It would seem that you dont have a defult route set VIA your isp, now if
> you have a PPP connection the default route should be set when you
> connect.
>
> Check with the route command, and/or route -ne.
>
> > can give me some suggestions as to what I can do to get things
> > (espicially my email) working again.
>
> You give us more spesific information and possably we can help you more.
>
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> > Chris
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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Regards Richard
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