Thanks, Mike for the assistance - got a direction to head in. Always nice to
end a conversation with a little more knowledge than it started it.
- Rich Thompson
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 17:11, you wrote:
> On Thursday 09 August 2001 04:36, Richard Thompson wrote:
> > Aug 6 20:47:27 costello pppd[7924]: local IP address 216.47.27.128
> > Aug 6 20:47:27 costello pppd[7924]: remote IP address 216.47.25.5
>
> My money is on them. And it is _probably_ no more than a simple typo on
> their part when handling dynamically assigned ips to a large block of them.
>
> Ok, so this is for the purposes of answering me, or, them.
>
> first you have to establish whether you can get to the outside world at
> all, after a dial (i think you said no). In short
>
> find a hard ip number in the outside world that will answer pings
>
> yahoo on 216.115.108.243 is a safe bet.
>
> no answer means your default gateway is stuffed, OR, 'them' have a routing
> problem on THEIR 216.47.25.5 (it's easy enough for an isp to bungle a
> script) <slap>
>
> /sbin/ifconfig
>
> _should_ show the following
>
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface 216.47.25.5 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
> 0 ppp0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0
> 0 lo default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0
> 0 ppp0
>
> if that ^^^^ gateway and defailt isn't there, *you* have a problem,
> houston.
>
>
> On the other hand, if you _can_ at least ping a hard number, you, or them
> have a dns issue.
>
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
>
> ping the last listed server
>
> if it doesn't respond, you, or them, are lying about where the dns server
> is.
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