I have a similar? problem. After a system crash from disk errors, a working diald/ppp setup will not connect correctly. The error message received is "serial line looped back". I could not find a description of this message anywhere. After uninstalling diald and using "pon", I am connected now. If I execute "poff" it returns that there is more than one pppd running, but "ps -ax" reports only one.
Regarding the "files dns" line in nsswitch.conf, it worked fine with this line in the file previously, but I removed the dns entry with no help. Any help would be appreciated. Joe Stewart On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > > There were some problems reported with the /etc/nsswitch.conf. > > > The networks line says " files dns" which means that when resolving a > network address, libc will try first /etc/networks, then ask on DNS. > > > However route tries to resolve the net diald passes to it and blocks in > there (the DNS server cannot be contacted because there's no route to it, > and the route cannot be established because the net has to be resolved). > > > > > > Try removing the dns entry from the networks line of /etc/nsswitch.conf. > > > > > > Anyways, this is problematic to have this networks line with dns, and > > > a future version of base-files is supposed to fix this. > > Is there a place where I can find documentation about /etc/nsswitch.conf? > I couldn't find any man pages, info documents or files in > /usr/doc/base-files that covers what it is for or what it does. > > Thanks, > > > Joost > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
