Hello All Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back now, and have got a bit further, but not much!
Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and gone with freeserve anytime. Have set it all up in MCC/kppp and Mozilla (thanks to John Richard Smith for freeserve screenshots), but still having problems. Subscribed to the Berlin news server via Win 98 machine, and next time I tried to connect via Linux machine the news.cis.dfn.de account automatically showed up in Mozilla - but when I tried to subscribe to newsgroups I got "Failed to connect to server news.cis.dfn.de". Seems to me that it HAS connected to the server - or how would Mozilla know that I had registered for that service - but for some reason it won't let me see the information that is coming from the server! When trying to receive email, I get "Failed to connect to server pop.freeserve.com". Attempted browsing gives me a message at the bottom of the browser screen "Resolving host www.google.co.uk" and a box in the middle of the browser saying "www.google.co.uk could not be found. Please check the name and try again". By mistake the other day I forgot to set kppp running before trying Mozilla - and got the exact same error messages on mail, news and browse without even being connected to the internet! I have tried to ping, and got strange results - when I did ping www.yahoo.com I got "unknown host www.yahoo.com, but when I tried ping 66.218.71.83 (the numeric version of yahoo) I got "PING 66.218.71.83 (66.218.71.83) from 217.134.91.169 : 56(84) bytes of data. I don't understand why it works by number but not by name. Can anyone help me further? Thanks Margot
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