Thanks for the suggestion, but I've already got it working. John Hasler pointed out that I had a default gateway set up when I didn't need one. I removed it and bingo.
Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian Users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Cc: "Jake Hoban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 12:09 AM Subject: Re: PPP connection can't find servers > > > Jake Hoban wrote: > > > Apologies if this has been posted before - I've only just subscribed. > > > > > > > > I'm in the process of a new debian installation via floppies and ppp. I've > > got to the point where it dials my ISP to get to the FTP server, but it > > never connects to it and after a while the modem hangs up. > > I had this problem once on another machine, and the reason was no > > entries in > > /etc/resolv.conf. But both the nameservers are in there this time. > > I've tried pinging the loopback IP address, which works. But I can't ping > > anything else, not even the name servers. > > > Are you sure pppd is running? Check /var/log/messages to make sure. > Assuming that your ISP uses dynamic IP addressing this should tell you > the IP of the other end of the PPP link, you could try pinging that, and > also check that if the DNS servers are listed they are the same as the > ones you used in resolv.conf > > Jim > > Please cc me in on replies. > >
