On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:30, Andy Leach wrote: > Morning, hope you all had a good night - Yes, thank you for your concern.
For some reason your connection to the isp has not given you a routeable ip number. Is this machine connected to a LAN at the same time as it tries to connect to the wider Internet? I ask because if you have an existing default route via an ethernet card the isp cannot over-ride it. It looks to me as if you have made a ppp connection to the isp's terminal server all right but the pap/chap or dhcp negotiations have yet to take place. Therefore you do not have either a route to the wider world, nor a world visible ip number. Presumably the command ping -c3 17.254.3.183 ( This is the apple.com number, and the do have a ping available on it. ) produces a message about "no route to host" or some such? You might find a hint or two in the /var/log/messages file. Also a 'cat /etc/resolv.conf' while both on and off line would be informative. > Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > >>previously, attempting to make the connection to a site was what > >>triggered the dailup request > > > >Keep that "demand dial" box checked. > > it is > > >[ftp] > > > >>no luck with these, time outs and name resolution failures > > > >Hm, maybe the link is up but doesn't shove data across. > > > >> setting /usr/bin/pppd to root:dailout 0755 ( wrong permissions 4755 ) > >>I tried everything again after this with no change. > > > >If you use the smpppd and kinternet ppp runs as root anyway, so the suid > >bit isn't needed. > > > >>bash doesn't like rsync > > > >Install the rsync package. > > I did, I ran rsync rsync://planetmirror.com and got > rsync: getaddrinfo: planetmirror.com 873 Temporary failure in name > resolution > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(88) > > I haven't used rsync before, sorry if my interpretation of your request > and the man page are incorrect, let me know > > >>>Use wget or similar to test http. > >> > >>nothing still > > > >Sorry, this doesn't help. A copy/paste of the screen output would be in > >order. Or say something like "the command produced no output and hang > >until I ^C it a minute later". > > sorry, here's a more completer version > > wget www.bylandwaterandair.com produced > > --10:05:58-- http://www.bylandwaterandair.com/ > => 'index.html' > Resolving www.bylandwaterandair.com... failed: Temporary failure in name > resolution > > it then returned me to the command prompt > > >>so should I go get a different one now ? I'm in no position to say but I > >>don't believe the connection is up, I've had the pc unplugged to use > >>mail from this pc and the modem hasn't made any connection sounds since > >>I plugged it back in. > > > >There must have been some data exchange between you and your ISP, > >otherwise your pppd couldn't have obtained the IP number from your ISP. > > I tried clicking the kinternet icon with the modem/phone line uplugged > and it gave me exactly the same details in the log as before > > >Obviously something is still wrong though. Check in yast that your IP is > >set to dynamic, and that resolv.conf is modified dynamically. Keep your > >firewall turned off while testing (turn off at least xntpd, or any other > >server you don't need). > > I have kept the firewall disabled > > >Dialup again and check the log is as before. Did you say the animated > >data-transfer icon in the panel doesn't appear? Does the > >two-plugs-connected icon appear? > > I just get the little plug-with-fireball icon, the 'ready to dailup' one > - no conencted plugs and no animated data-transfer > > > Then please post the outputs of > >ifconfig ppp0 > > ppp0 Link encap:Point-toPoint Protocol > inet addr:192.168.99.1 P-t-P:192.168.99.99 Mask 255.255.255.255 > UP POINTTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carriers:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > > and back to prompt > > > and route -n, > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags > Metric Ref Use Iface > 192.168.99.9 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 0 lo > 0.0.0.0 192.168.99.99 0.0.0.0 UG > 0 0 0 ppp0 > > >and ping -c3 google.com > > ping: unknown host google.com > > > ftp produces failure in name resolution > > >I'm starting to run out of ideas though. > > I'm starting to think maybe I did something so mindnumbingly stupid > no-ones going to think of it! thankyou for all your & everyone elses help, > > >Volker -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
