what this is is either the "default gateway" or the DNS is wrongly configured.

On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:37 am, Margot wrote:
> 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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