On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:37 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
Ummm sounds like a cookie/nameserver problem (two problems with similar results) First resolve the nameserver problem Then take care of the cookies by re-registering for the services. For the nameserver problem, let us see the output of a command line 1. Open a terminal 2. Type the command 3. highlight the output with the mouse 4. click on the email window and middle-click (or right and lefgt click at same time) to paste The command is $ cat /etc/resolv.conf Also in kppp make sure you have some nameservers set or that you are getting automated retrieval Here is my cat /etc/resolv.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] tester]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search civileme.net nameserver 209.193.4.8 nameserver 209.193.4.7 # ppp temp entry [EMAIL PROTECTED] tester]$ Civileme
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