> I am now seemingly making connection with my ISP. That is, my modem dials > and seems to get through. However, when I run Mozilla, it seems to hang. If > I try invoking it again, I get an error message along the lines that a > session of Mozilla is already open. However, if I run Mozilla while I am > off-line, I dont have a problem. It opens up to a default HTML page no > questions asked. I can then go and look at other HTML pages as well. > > Also, if I run Lynx while I am on-line, it tries to connect to the page that > I have designated as my home directory for Internet Explorer 5 in Win95. I > then get a message saying "Unable to connect to host", and Lynx drops out. > The page in question is the Australian AltaVista mirror site at > http://www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au, which is normally a fast and > reliable site.
Try pinging a site, like "ping www.altavista.com". If you get replies, that indicates that all is (probably) well on your set up; if you get timeouts, that could be due to any number of problems. My first guess is that your dns settings are not set up properly. Perhaps you transposed a number? Like 123.456.789.123 instead of 123.4>6<5.789.123?
