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From: Hardy Menagh
Reply To: PowerBooks
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 4:20 PM
To: PowerBooks
Subject: Re: PBook Ghost Connections
At 4:52 PM -0500 1/16/2003, Tom Roth wrote:
Ask your ISP
At 8:25 AM -0500 1/17/03, Tom Roth wrote:
DNS IP numbers should be in the TCP/IP control panel. Typically they are
automatically assigned along with your IP number when your dial in. Since
you're running an older OS I'm not sure exactly what it looks like. It's been
a few years since I was
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From: Hardy Menagh
Subject: Re; PBook Ghost Connections
With the Open Transport 1.1.2, OT PPP 1.0 setup on OS 7.x - 8.1, The PPP
panel displays the address you are connected to, pretty much the same as
Remote Access on later systems. I collected several
Hardy Menagh wrote:
Good stuff Tom. I easily found MacPing here:
http://www.dartware.com/macping/demoform.html and will check it out when
I connect with a PowerBook later.
A more useful tool is OTTool, from Neon SOftware:
ftp://ftp2.neon.com/pub/goodies/OTTool121.sit.hqx it does DNS
At 10:13 AM -0700 1/17/03, Bruce Johnson wrote:
A more useful tool is OTTool, from Neon SOftware:
ftp://ftp2.neon.com/pub/goodies/OTTool121.sit.hqx it does DNS lookup,
ping, traceroute, a scanner...very useful tool indeed.
Ok, if I don't ask some stupid questions, I will never elevate myself out
Cool, yet another utility to add to my collection. Looks similar to WhatRoute in
functions. Still, you can't beat MacPing for it's simplicity.
~tom
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From: Bruce Johnson
Subject: Re: Re; PBook Ghost Connections
A more useful tool is OTTool, from Neon SOftware
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From: Hardy Menagh
Ok, if I don't ask some stupid questions, I will never elevate myself out
of the slime (or maybe I just need a shower). What is the difference
between a DNS and an IP address.
The DNS will be an IP address but when you dial-up, your Mac is also
At 1:55 PM -0500 1/17/2003, Tom Roth wrote:
even try going to apple's website via the IP number instead of name.
Instead of:
http://www.apple.com/
Try:
http://17.112.152.32/
If using the name doesn't work but using the IP address does, then it's a
DNS problem. If neither works then you have
Check your DNS settings.
~tom
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From: Hardy Menagh
Reply To: PowerBooks
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:17 AM
To: PowerBooks
Subject: PBook Ghost Connections
About two weeks ago, my PB 540c, OS 8.1, 36 MB and my wife's 520c OS 7.5.5,
24 MB,
Following up my own post, I'm emailing this from one of the aforementioned
Powerbooks which I couldn't get on line. I'm using a different ISP. It's
strange that with the other service, I can email and surf with MacWWW from
a System 6 Plus and cruise around with an OS 8.6 G3 but nothing inbetween.
: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:19 AM
To: PowerBooks
Subject: Re: PBook Ghost Connections
At 10:34 AM -0500 1/16/03, Tom Roth wrote:
Check your DNS settings.
They are the same as on my desktops. PPP reports a good connection. I just
can't access the web or mail.
Hardy
At 4:25 PM -0500 1/16/2003, Tom Roth wrote:
See if you can manually enter the DNS numbers. Dial-up usually
automatically assigns them and your older OS may not be compatible.
Perhaps your ISP recently upgraded something on his end to cause this to
happen.
~tom
The DNS numbers are being
Ask your ISP for the DNS numbers. They aren't top secret. You should also try
pinging some known IP number. If pinging works then it's got to be a DNS problem.
~tom
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From: Hardy Menagh
The DNS numbers are being automatically acquired and I am connecting. I
just can't
At 4:52 PM -0500 1/16/2003, Tom Roth wrote:
Ask your ISP for the DNS numbers. They aren't top secret. You should
also try pinging some known IP number. If pinging works then it's got to
be a DNS problem.
Aren't the DNS numbers displayed in the Connected To field of the PPP
control panel? If
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