To test DNS, instead of ping the domain name, try to ping its ip address. If you fail in pinging ip address also, There must be something worng with pon. Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 8:44 AM Subject: Simple DNS/ppp
>This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Gavin Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Be sure to reply to that address. > >I'm very new to Linux, and I have been trying to >do a slink install via ftp. Currently I have >installed the slink kernel. >When I go to connect useing pon, it connects >alright and everything. I'm using PAP. After >authentication and getting assigned an IP, I try >to ftp ftp://ftp.debian.org. After a long try, I >get a host name lookup failure. This happens with >all servers I try to connect to. When I ping, I >get 100% loss. I suspect somthing's wrong with >DNS, but to my knowledge my nameserver IP's are >fine. > >Gavin Rogers > >Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
