Re: [newbie] Internet connectivity problem
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 05:05 pm, cervix couch wrote: Once again I'm having trouble connecting with the Internet via Linux. I'm running LM 7.1 I start KPPP from the desktop and everything appears to proceed as it should. I get the message Logging onto network, Netscape opens up, then nothing else happens. Netscape freezes and it isn't until I turn off the modem that I get error messages saying that it can't find the server. I've tried pinging sites like yahoo by name and IP addr and nothing happens. I've checked /etc/host, /etc/host.allow, /etc/host.deny and everything seems fine. The firewall isn't up. Ipchains looks OK (to me at least). ifconfig looks OK too. So what could the problem be? If your ISP has assigned you addresses for his DNS-servers (like 123.456.789.1) try the setup in kppp. Then, in the DNS-tab, select manual instead of dynamic. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity - finding DNS servers
Personally, if my ISP would not provide me with the information I need to set up any OS or configuration I want to connect with, I'd get me another ISP! I use a local provider, and they have given me good service, with very little "down time" and like that. When I told them I was mucking about with Linux, they even gave me the email of a user who is in a local user group to help me get started. You can not get that kind of support with any national outfit. Just my 2 cents worth, Ernie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,M Thompson wrote: | I have BellAtlantic as our home ISP and they refused to give out their DNS | servers, so I fired up an xterm session after conencting to the ISP and then | simply typed "whois bellatlantic.net." It listed the IP addresses of | BellAtlantic's DNS servers. | | HTH, | Matt | | | From: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity | Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:55:59 + | | Hi , | | If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to | set | up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create | the | file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on | the | brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and | they | refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers. | | Question, I tried to manually configure the proxy settings in Netscape and | it | tells me the proxy is not recognized so it refuses to accept the entries. | Do I | have to enter the proxy somewhere else first? I wouldn't think so, The win | version accepted the entries with no problem. | | Aaron deRozario wrote: | | Advice from a newbie - treat with caution ;-) | | If you don't have /etc/resolv.conf you can create it by firing up your | favourite text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite) and simply saving an empty | file as | /etc/resolve.conf. Of course since you need to edit the file with the | appropriate information you may as well do that at the same time. | resolve.conf I think follows the format (see if there's a man page for | resolve.conf it will have the exact format) | | nameserver (eg ozemail.com.au) | DNS IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) | DNS2 IP address (if there is two nameservers) | | If you use kppp then it will take care of editing /etc/resolve.conf for | you. | I think if you use kppp resolve.conf needs to be writeable by those | users | that will have ppp access. chmod 666 should do it | | Read the ppp how-to's if what I said doesn't work, or check the archives | - | DNS problems come up very regularly on the list. I think the Kppp help | files also have useful information. | | Aaron | |-Original Message- |From: Mark Nina Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:10 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity | |Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build |this |file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info | on |how to do this? Thanks!! | |-Original Message- |From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM |Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity | | |On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: | | Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a |dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting | to my |ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive |indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I | get |a |server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the | name |server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the |server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". | Have I |missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be |greatly |appreciated. | | | | |Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" |Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable |Content-Description: | |First, ditch the HTML. It's not appreciated in this list. |Second, open up a root console window and go to /etc/ and |edit your /etc/resolv.conf so that it has your ISP's DNS |servers. It should look something like this: |search chattanooga.net |nameserver 209.54.120.2 |nameserver 209.54.120.3 | |The "cha
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity - finding DNS servers
That's what I'm going to do. evesta.com won't give you the info or help you connect, plus, their support techs have a canned response for every problem. If you have a question outside their list they'll "get back in touch with you". I called ifriendly.com because they have filtered access too. The guy I talked to said he didn't know much about Linux but another guy there did and he'd have him call me back. 10 minutes later I got a phone call from the other tech. He filled me in on how they work, gave me the DNS IP addresses so I'd have them once I changed over, and spent about 15 minutes giving me a short tutorial on setting up ppp and asking some questions about mandrake. Now THAT's customer service. (I like filtered access because I have 3 teen-agers, and I never get spammed- they filter it out) Sam "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." wrote: Personally, if my ISP would not provide me with the information I need to set up any OS or configuration I want to connect with, I'd get me another ISP! I use a local provider, and they have given me good service, with very little "down time" and like that. When I told them I was mucking about with Linux, they even gave me the email of a user who is in a local user group to help me get started. You can not get that kind of support with any national outfit. Just my 2 cents worth, Ernie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,M Thompson wrote: | I have BellAtlantic as our home ISP and they refused to give out their DNS | servers, so I fired up an xterm session after conencting to the ISP and then | simply typed "whois bellatlantic.net." It listed the IP addresses of | BellAtlantic's DNS servers. | | HTH, | Matt | | | From: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity | Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:55:59 + | | Hi , | | If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to | set | up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create | the | file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on | the | brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and | they | refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers. | | Question, I tried to manually configure the proxy settings in Netscape and | it | tells me the proxy is not recognized so it refuses to accept the entries. | Do I | have to enter the proxy somewhere else first? I wouldn't think so, The win | version accepted the entries with no problem. | | Aaron deRozario wrote: | | Advice from a newbie - treat with caution ;-) | | If you don't have /etc/resolv.conf you can create it by firing up your | favourite text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite) and simply saving an empty | file as | /etc/resolve.conf. Of course since you need to edit the file with the | appropriate information you may as well do that at the same time. | resolve.conf I think follows the format (see if there's a man page for | resolve.conf it will have the exact format) | | nameserver (eg ozemail.com.au) | DNS IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) | DNS2 IP address (if there is two nameservers) | | If you use kppp then it will take care of editing /etc/resolve.conf for | you. | I think if you use kppp resolve.conf needs to be writeable by those | users | that will have ppp access. chmod 666 should do it | | Read the ppp how-to's if what I said doesn't work, or check the archives | - | DNS problems come up very regularly on the list. I think the Kppp help | files also have useful information. | | Aaron | |-Original Message- |From: Mark Nina Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:10 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity | |Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build |this |file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info | on |how to do this? Thanks!! | |-Original Message- |From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM |Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity | | |On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: | | Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a |dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting | to my |ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive |indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I | get |a |server error and it also tells me th
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity - finding DNS servers
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote: That's what I'm going to do. evesta.com won't give you the info or help you connect, plus, their support techs have a canned response for every problem. If you have a question outside their list they'll "get back in touch with you". I called ifriendly.com because they have filtered access too. The guy I talked to said he didn't know much about Linux but another guy there did and he'd have him call me back. 10 minutes later I got a phone call from the other tech. He filled me in on how they work, gave me the DNS IP addresses so I'd have them once I changed over, and spent about 15 minutes giving me a short tutorial on setting up ppp and asking some questions about mandrake. Now THAT's customer service. (I like filtered access because I have 3 teen-agers, and I never get spammed- they filter it out) May I suggest Mindspring/Earthlink? They're a national organization and even though they compete with us in this market, we sometimes refer potential customers to them, especially people who only want the "all you can eat for $19.95" internet access. :-) Check out www.mindspring.net John
RE: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
You have to enter the settings. Select manual proxy configuration under "advanced, proxies". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sam Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 2:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity Hi , If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to set up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create the file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on the brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and they refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers. Question, I tried to manually configure the proxy settings in Netscape and it tells me the proxy is not recognized so it refuses to accept the entries. Do I have to enter the proxy somewhere else first? I wouldn't think so, The win version accepted the entries with no problem. Aaron deRozario wrote: Advice from a newbie - treat with caution ;-) If you don't have /etc/resolv.conf you can create it by firing up your favourite text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite) and simply saving an empty file as /etc/resolve.conf. Of course since you need to edit the file with the appropriate information you may as well do that at the same time. resolve.conf I think follows the format (see if there's a man page for resolve.conf it will have the exact format) nameserver (eg ozemail.com.au) DNS IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) DNS2 IP address (if there is two nameservers) If you use kppp then it will take care of editing /etc/resolve.conf for you. I think if you use kppp resolve.conf needs to be writeable by those users that will have ppp access. chmod 666 should do it Read the ppp how-to's if what I said doesn't work, or check the archives - DNS problems come up very regularly on the list. I think the Kppp help files also have useful information. Aaron -Original Message- From: Mark Nina Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build this file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info on how to do this? Thanks!! -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I get a server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the name server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". Have I missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, ditch the HTML. It's not appreciated in this list. Second, open up a root console window and go to /etc/ and edit your /etc/resolv.conf so that it has your ISP's DNS servers. It should look something like this: search chattanooga.net nameserver 209.54.120.2 nameserver 209.54.120.3 The "chattanooga.net" would be replaced with your ISP, "leading.net" Second, you'd replace the above numbers with the IP addresses of your ISP, leading.net. To find out that information, call your ISP and ask what their DNS numbers are and plug 'em in above in place of MY dns numbers. I won't put something together for you to just copy and paste, because I firmly believe that you learn by doing. I gave you the example from my system, so you know the way it should look. John
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
That's what I did. It gave me the error message when I tried to close the window
after entering the proxy info. I'm stumped because I've done this exact same
thing in the windows version with no problems.
"Lawrence G." wrote:
You have to enter the settings. Select manual proxy configuration under
"advanced, proxies".
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sam
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 2:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
Hi ,
If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used
linuxconfig to set
up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed
to create the
file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be
wrong. Look on the
brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet
access and they
refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers.
Question, I tried to manually configure the proxy settings in
Netscape and it
tells me the proxy is not recognized so it refuses to accept the
entries. Do I
have to enter the proxy somewhere else first? I wouldn't think so, The win
version accepted the entries with no problem.
Aaron deRozario wrote:
Advice from a newbie - treat with caution ;-)
If you don't have /etc/resolv.conf you can create it by firing up your
favourite text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite) and simply saving an
empty file as
/etc/resolve.conf. Of course since you need to edit the file with the
appropriate information you may as well do that at the same time.
resolve.conf I think follows the format (see if there's a man page for
resolve.conf it will have the exact format)
nameserver (eg ozemail.com.au)
DNS IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
DNS2 IP address (if there is two nameservers)
If you use kppp then it will take care of editing
/etc/resolve.conf for you.
I think if you use kppp resolve.conf needs to be writeable by
those users
that will have ppp access. chmod 666 should do it
Read the ppp how-to's if what I said doesn't work, or check the
archives -
DNS problems come up very regularly on the list. I think the Kppp help
files also have useful information.
Aaron
-Original Message-
From: Mark Nina Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build
this
file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I
get info on
how to do this? Thanks!!
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a
dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of
connecting to my
ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive
indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run
Netscape I get
a
server error and it also tells me that there is a problem
with the name
server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the
server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network
unreachable". Have I
missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be
greatly
appreciated.
Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Description:
First, ditch the HTML. It's not appreciated in this list.
Second, open up a root console window and go to /etc/ and
edit your /etc/resolv.conf so that it has your ISP's DNS
servers. It should look something like this:
search chattanooga.net
nameserver 209.54.120.2
nameserver 209.54.120.3
The "chattanooga.net" would be replaced with your ISP,
"leading.net" Second, you'd replace the above numbers with
the IP addresses of your ISP, leading.net. To find out that
information, call your ISP and ask what their DNS numbers
are and plug 'em in above in place of MY dns numbers.
I won't put something together for you to just copy and paste,
because I firmly believe that you learn by doing. I gave
you the example from my system, so you know the way it
should look.
John
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
Hi , If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to set up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create the file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on the brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and they refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers. Question, I tried to manually configure the proxy settings in Netscape and it tells me the proxy is not recognized so it refuses to accept the entries. Do I have to enter the proxy somewhere else first? I wouldn't think so, The win version accepted the entries with no problem. Aaron deRozario wrote: Advice from a newbie - treat with caution ;-) If you don't have /etc/resolv.conf you can create it by firing up your favourite text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite) and simply saving an empty file as /etc/resolve.conf. Of course since you need to edit the file with the appropriate information you may as well do that at the same time. resolve.conf I think follows the format (see if there's a man page for resolve.conf it will have the exact format) nameserver (eg ozemail.com.au) DNS IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) DNS2 IP address (if there is two nameservers) If you use kppp then it will take care of editing /etc/resolve.conf for you. I think if you use kppp resolve.conf needs to be writeable by those users that will have ppp access. chmod 666 should do it Read the ppp how-to's if what I said doesn't work, or check the archives - DNS problems come up very regularly on the list. I think the Kppp help files also have useful information. Aaron -Original Message- From: Mark Nina Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build this file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info on how to do this? Thanks!! -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I get a server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the name server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". Have I missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, ditch the HTML. It's not appreciated in this list. Second, open up a root console window and go to /etc/ and edit your /etc/resolv.conf so that it has your ISP's DNS servers. It should look something like this: search chattanooga.net nameserver 209.54.120.2 nameserver 209.54.120.3 The "chattanooga.net" would be replaced with your ISP, "leading.net" Second, you'd replace the above numbers with the IP addresses of your ISP, leading.net. To find out that information, call your ISP and ask what their DNS numbers are and plug 'em in above in place of MY dns numbers. I won't put something together for you to just copy and paste, because I firmly believe that you learn by doing. I gave you the example from my system, so you know the way it should look. John
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build this
file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info on
how to do this? Thanks!!
YES! Although you SHOULD learn how to do this yourself, I'm
going to create one you can cut out of this message and
paste into the "resolv.conf" on your system.
--[cut here]-
search leading.net
nameserver 216.199.0.101
nameserver 216.199.0.102
--[cut here]-
Now, let me explain what this stuff is:
Search -- your ISP's domain name. In this case,
"leading.net" is your ISP's domain name.
Nameserver -- it wants an IP address so it can go search
and convert an internet site name to a numeric address,
which is how it knows to load www.cnn.com for instance. In
the example of www.cnn.com, your ISP's dns server knows
that one numeric alias for www.cnn.com is 207.25.71.7. Now
there are quite a few others, but that's the first one.
Ownership of resolv.conf needs to be user "root" and
group "root." It's best to create this file as the root
user (you can just "su" to root and create a blank file
using your favorite text editor. I use joe, others prefer
pico, etc.) No matter which editor you choose you'll
need to invoke it and tell it to open
"/etc/resolv.conf". I'll use joe in this example. Type joe
/etc/resolv.conf and it'll give you a new file, into which
you'd cut and paste the above info, or just retype it.
Then, when you're done, just tell your editor to save and
exit. In joe that command is control-k+x to save and exit
all at once. In pico, I think it's just control-x.
The permissions need to be 644 ("chmod 644
/etc/resolv.conf")
John
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity - finding DNS servers
I have BellAtlantic as our home ISP and they refused to give out their DNS servers, so I fired up an xterm session after conencting to the ISP and then simply typed "whois bellatlantic.net." It listed the IP addresses of BellAtlantic's DNS servers. HTH, Matt From: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:55:59 + Hi , If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to set up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create the file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on the brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and they refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers. Question, I tried to manually configure the proxy settings in Netscape and it tells me the proxy is not recognized so it refuses to accept the entries. Do I have to enter the proxy somewhere else first? I wouldn't think so, The win version accepted the entries with no problem. Aaron deRozario wrote: Advice from a newbie - treat with caution ;-) If you don't have /etc/resolv.conf you can create it by firing up your favourite text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite) and simply saving an empty file as /etc/resolve.conf. Of course since you need to edit the file with the appropriate information you may as well do that at the same time. resolve.conf I think follows the format (see if there's a man page for resolve.conf it will have the exact format) nameserver (eg ozemail.com.au) DNS IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) DNS2 IP address (if there is two nameservers) If you use kppp then it will take care of editing /etc/resolve.conf for you. I think if you use kppp resolve.conf needs to be writeable by those users that will have ppp access. chmod 666 should do it Read the ppp how-to's if what I said doesn't work, or check the archives - DNS problems come up very regularly on the list. I think the Kppp help files also have useful information. Aaron -Original Message- From: Mark Nina Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build this file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info on how to do this? Thanks!! -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I get a server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the name server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". Have I missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, ditch the HTML. It's not appreciated in this list. Second, open up a root console window and go to /etc/ and edit your /etc/resolv.conf so that it has your ISP's DNS servers. It should look something like this: search chattanooga.net nameserver 209.54.120.2 nameserver 209.54.120.3 The "chattanooga.net" would be replaced with your ISP, "leading.net" Second, you'd replace the above numbers with the IP addresses of your ISP, leading.net. To find out that information, call your ISP and ask what their DNS numbers are and plug 'em in above in place of MY dns numbers. I won't put something together for you to just copy and paste, because I firmly believe that you learn by doing. I gave you the example from my system, so you know the way it should look. John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi , If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to set up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create the file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on the brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and they refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers. Well, that's taken care of easily enough G: Domain servers in listed order: NS1.EVESTA.COM 209.140.129.133 NS2.EVESTA.COM 209.140.129.134
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
There are several ways to set up your Internet connection. If you are connecting to an ISP using a modem, the correct way is to use pppd. You can do this in KDE with KPPP, or from anywhere with linuxconf. I think that using netcfg does not set up the point-to-point protocol required to use the internet (not really sure on this). I just know what has worked for me. Hope this helps, Ernie On Mon, 25 Oct 1999,Mark Nina Drake wrote: | | Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I get a server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the name server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". Have I missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be greatly appreciated. || Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build this file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info on how to do this? Thanks!! -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote: Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I get a server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the name server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". Have I missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, ditch the HTML. It's not appreciated in this list. Second, open up a root console window and go to /etc/ and edit your /etc/resolv.conf so that it has your ISP's DNS servers. It should look something like this: search chattanooga.net nameserver 209.54.120.2 nameserver 209.54.120.3 The "chattanooga.net" would be replaced with your ISP, "leading.net" Second, you'd replace the above numbers with the IP addresses of your ISP, leading.net. To find out that information, call your ISP and ask what their DNS numbers are and plug 'em in above in place of MY dns numbers. I won't put something together for you to just copy and paste, because I firmly believe that you learn by doing. I gave you the example from my system, so you know the way it should look. John
Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
Mark Nina Drake wrote: Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting to my ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I get a server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the name server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable". Have I missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Check that you have your /etc/resolv.conf set up and pointing to the domain, search and namserver(s) like: domain leading.net207.98.192.90 search leading.net nameserver 207.98.192.90 nameserver (IP add) Hope this helps. -- Ronald Yeo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
