On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Edward Dekkers wrote:
>> And so on. Don't know what this means. My ISP is ix.netcom.com and I'm a single
>> user. Also a non-programmer. Any help gratefully appreciated.
> Ouch, it annoys me when people refer to configuring their systems as
> 'programming'. It doesn't matter if you understand Pascal or C or assembly,
> neither are going to help you configure Linux.
FYI, in the mainframe world, the term programmer=system admin.
> Anyways,
>
> You need to look at your resolv.conf. Make sure your ISP's DNS server(s) are
> listed there.
If you can ping an numeric IP address outside of your network, this is indeed
the problem.
If you annot ping a numeric IP, your ppp is not connecting properly
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