> Mike Green wrote:
> >
> > I have a completely fresh install of Redhat 6.1 on a Pentium 90 --
> > reformatted the hard drives to get a clean start. Many things look
> > good, but once I'm logged on (according to kppp) to an ISP I cannot
> > access sites on the Internet with ping or http or ftp.
Many thanks to all of the good suggestions, all of which helped me learn.
In the end the problem was, however, apparently something else: In trying to
come up with an answer as to what to fill in for Hostname under
Config->Networking->Client tasks->Basic host information in linuxconf I had
devised a Hostname (and on the next screen a primary name + domain) which
looked too much like a real Internet name -- i.e. I used an unassigned .com
name. (I really know better ;-( ...but I tried to follow what I understood from
the help screens in linuxconf -- although that seemed contrary to other things
I knew.)
This apparently caused any packets sent out by ping to be sent back to
the wrong place?? Because when I changed the Hostname and primary name +
domain to both be linux-mdg.localdomain, the problem went away. I realize that
my original posting on this didn't say that I was actually able to reach a DNS.
When I wrote that post I didn't realize that in fact I was, but that I just
wasn't getting replies back from the sites that were being pinged with the IP
addresses the DNS provided.
Does anyone have a good recommendation for what to use for Hostname and primary
name + domain for machines which are connected to the Internet and to a LAN but
which are not web servers with fully qualified domain names?
Now on to the next level of my endeavor: trying to get my Linux machine to
talk to my Windows 95 and 98 machines over the network where those Windows
machines are already talking to one another (on a peer basis)... I'll likely
have more questions.
Cheers!
Mike Green
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