[newbie] problems with server identity
Please could you help. I am a complete beginner with the linux-mandrake system. Through a hair-raising process of trial and error, I am slowly getting to grips with the power that it confers. I am having a problem with getting information online, e.g. email (sending and receiving) and netscape.. I keep getting the error message that 'the following hosts are unknown' these include home.Netscape etc. The message tells me that there is a problem with the name server and refers to SOCKS. I do not understand any of this. I can connect to the internet via kppp; when online, if I enter the address of a page in its numerical form (e.g. the LineOne home page, http://207.200.83.29) into the Location box in Netscape, I load this page, whereas if I enter it in words (e.g. http://www.lineone.net ) I can not. However, even when I have loaded netscape by entering the number address of the page (is this its URL?), I can not follow the links by clicking on them, but if I add an extension (e.g.207.200.83.29/users.html) I go to that page. In short, there appears to be a fundamental problem with netscape not being able to read any information unless it is entered directly into the location box in a specific manner. I have tried to configure Netscape using Preferences, but it does not work that way. I can not use kmail either. If I try top send mail, I get the error message that the smtp server can not be contacted; if I try to receive mail, I get the error message that the server can not be contacted. This feels intuitively like a single group of problems, i.e. the programs are reading the information from somewhere that I have not yet configured. Please could you tell me where the information on servers, addresses etc is likely to be held. It is highly likely that I am completely wrong and so if you can suggest anything else, I would be very grateful. This mailing comes from the other hard disc set up for W95/IE5/OE. I have asked the Netscape help desk three times but they won't even reply! I haveextreme difficulty understanding the messages that fly about on this newbie list (I am a cell biologist, not a computer programmer!) so any advice will have to start" from the $ prompt in konsole" or "login as root,open kppp,". Thanks, Fraser Kendall
Re: [newbie] problems with server identity
It was Oct 11, 2000, 09:16, when Fraser Kendall keyboarded: any of this. I can connect to the internet via kppp; when online, if I enter the address of a page in its numerical form (e.g. the LineOne home page, http://207.200.83.29) into the Location box in Netscape, I load this page, whereas if I enter it in words (e.g. http://www.lineone.net ) I can not. However, even when I have loaded netscape by entering the number address of the page (is this its URL?), I can not follow the links by clicking on them, but if I add an extension (e.g.207.200.83.29/users.html) I go to that page. In short, there The magic is kept in a mystical file called /etc/resolv.conf Add it, as root, or edit it, and make it look like: search=isp-name (your isp's name, not the literal text) nameserver=999.999.999.999 nameserver=999.999.999.999 Instead of the 999.999... you enter here the IP adresses of the DNS-server that your ISP should give you. And then, without ms-reboot, you will have solved the problem! Linux = magic! :) Paul -- VENI, VIDI, VICE I came, I saw, I partied. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] problems with server identity
Fraser Kendall wrote: [snip] I am having a problem with getting information online, e.g. email (sending and receiving) and netscape.. I keep getting the error message that 'the following hosts are unknown' these include home.Netscape etc. The message tells me that there is a problem with the name server and refers to SOCKS. I do not understand any of this. I can connect to the internet via kppp; when online, if I enter the address of a page in its numerical form (e.g. the LineOne home page, http://207.200.83.29) into the Location box in Netscape, I load this page, whereas if I enter it in words (e.g. http://www.lineone.net ) I can not. [snip] Fraseryou need to find out what the primary and secondary DNS server IP addresses are for your ISP and enter the name of your ISP and the two IP addresses in your /etc/resolv.conf file, the contents of my /etc/resolv.conf are listed below, however as I said, yours needs to use your ISP's name and its nameservers IP addresses: domain pe.net nameserver 216.100.16.2 nameserver 216.100.16.3 Alan
