on 11/14/03 8:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Thankyou all for you input. I contacted my isp and recieved an ip address >> and two DNS addresses.... I plugged them into TCP/IP, and verified it in PPP >> all that fun crap. Dialed up, logged on... And squat! Nothing... nada! >> Except that I can still ping out, nothing more... >> So I guess I need to buy a freakin copy of 8.5... anyone have one for >> cheap? > > IIRC the Apple PPP from 8.0 and 8.1 was pretty much broken. There's no way > that it should have failed to figure out DNS servers etc, the info is in the > PPP handshake but it never knew. I seem to recall using FreePPP and MacPPP or > similar replacements instead of the OT PPP. the ISPs back then could always > tell who was using Apple computers as they had to always call and get these > #'s that Windows acquired properly. Anyone else have a favorite replacement? > > Those should be a quick download, nad if you are clever you can get them via > ftp to the IP of the shareware ftp site archives (oh wait you have other > computers nearby... so that's not needed) > > Brian
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