On 28-Jul-99 Bert Bullough wrote:
> Do you have DNS #'s for the isp listed in the settings of the ppp connection?
> I ran
> into that problem myself today.
Yeah, the DNS settings are fine, she can resolve hostnames using nslookup. We
even found that she can SEND data to another machine... she just doesn't
RECEIVE anything.
> "Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to help someone else get Mandrake to work, and she is having a
>> problem with her PPP connection.
>>
>> Basically, her modem seems to work fine, and apparently she can connect fine
>> to
>> her ISP without any trouble. However, she cannot connect to anything else
>> (or
>> at least not receive any transmitted data from anything else). For example
>> if
>> she tries to retrieve a webpage with Netscape, she gets to the 'contacted
>> host,
>> waiting for reply' (or something like that) message and then gets nothing
>> else.
>> Results are similar with other programs (like telnet).
>>
>> Does anyone know what would cause this, and how to fix it?
>>
>> Note: During the install LILO failed to install in her MBR, and the boot
>> disk creation failed also, so I have her using loadlin to boot Linux... but
>> otherwise her installation seems fine.
>>
>> -Tom
