Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-12-04 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:43:01PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > I don't know if you are still in a bind, but I found a free DNS service > at http://soa.granitecanyon.com/. Haven't tried it though. Thanks - I'll make a note of that. I've got round it for the moment by using WINIPCFG.EXE to retrieve

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-12-04 Thread Chris Lale
Pigeon wrote: On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:16:19 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pigeon wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:00:21 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a solution you may not like! If all else fails, connect to ukonline using Windows using their CD/helpline

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-28 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:16:19 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:00:21 +, Chris Lale >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>Here's a solution you may not like! If all else fails, connect to >>>ukonline using Windows using their CD/helpline. Then

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-28 Thread Chris Lale
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:00:21 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a solution you may not like! If all else fails, connect to ukonline using Windows using their CD/helpline. Then copy the settings from dialup networking. Tee hee... that's how I connect to them at

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:00:21 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon wrote: > >> Read the line in my original post immediately after "every time it >> logs on"... :-) >> >> Thanks, anyway! > >Sorry! I had deleted previous messages in the thread before your post >caught my eye. > >He

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:25:30PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On 26 Nov 2002 19:21:53 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Stephen Gran writes: > >> In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somewhere > >> towards the bottom of the file (at least, that's always been it'

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-27 Thread Pigeon
On 26 Nov 2002 19:21:53 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Stephen Gran writes: >> In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somewhere >> towards the bottom of the file (at least, that's always been it's place < >> in my experience, don't know if it really matters). >

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Chris Lale
Pigeon wrote: Read the line in my original post immediately after "every time it logs on"... :-) Thanks, anyway! Sorry! I had deleted previous messages in the thread before your post caught my eye. Here's a solution you may not like! If all else fails, connect to ukonline using Windows us

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:37:01 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Pigeon said: >> Can you supply the magic words for dynamic DNS please? >> >> Thanks to everyone who replied, >> >> Pigeon > >In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somew

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Gran writes: > In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somewhere > towards the bottom of the file (at least, that's always been it's place < > in my experience, don't know if it really matters). Pppconfig should have put usepeerdns in the file if he selected 'Dynamic'.

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On 26 Nov 2002 14:58:20 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon writes: >> Read the line in my original post immediately after "every time it logs >> on"... > >For ukonline you want to select 'Dynamic' in the 'Configure Nameservers' >screen. For Waitrose you want 'static'. I must b

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Pigeon said: > Can you supply the magic words for dynamic DNS please? > > Thanks to everyone who replied, > > Pigeon In /etc/ppp/peers/ukonline, make sure you have 'usepeerdns' somewhere towards the bottom of the file (at least, that's always been it's place in my ex

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > Read the line in my original post immediately after "every time it logs > on"... For ukonline you want to select 'Dynamic' in the 'Configure Nameservers' screen. For Waitrose you want 'static'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUB

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:20:49 +, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John Hasler wrote: >> Pigeon writes: >> >>>I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP >>>account. I am using this one rather than my ukonline one because ukonline >>>requires my box to fetch DNS addre

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Pigeon
On 25 Nov 2002 18:00:05 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pigeon writes: >> I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP >> account. > >I assume that they have already given you a username and password? Yeah, it's a free account that I've had for some time to use

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-26 Thread Chris Lale
John Hasler wrote: Pigeon writes: I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP account. I am using this one rather than my ukonline one because ukonline requires my box to fetch DNS addresses every time it logs on,... Ppp can deal with this. Just select 'Dynamic' in the

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread nate
Karl E. Jorgensen said: > To the front line people it is almost as comprehensible as Greek with a > Urdu dialect. Whenever I call my ISP reporting problems with them I > prentend that I'm in front of the other OS. yeah, reminds me of a few episodes.. ISP: Please reboot your computer me: I don't

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:32:08PM +, Pigeon wrote: > I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP > account. I am using this one rather than my ukonline one because > ukonline requires my box to fetch DNS addresses every time it logs on, > whereas Waitrose has static on

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread nate
Pigeon said: > Please could someone suggest exactly the right questions to ask the ISP, > so I don't have to keep ding-donging emails back and forth, > rebooting from Linux to Windoze all the time cos the Linux box isn't on > line yet? What I would ask: - what terminal server equipment do they u

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP > account. I am using this one rather than my ukonline one because ukonline > requires my box to fetch DNS addresses every time it logs on,... Ppp can deal with this. Just select 'Dynamic' in the 'Configure Nameserv

Re: Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Can you dial in manually and record the dialog? It's been a long time since I had to do that, but that's how I did it years ago. Patrick On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 at 11:32pm, Pigeon wrote: :I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP :account. I am using this one rather than my u

Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed

2002-11-25 Thread Pigeon
I am trying to set up my Linux box to connect to my Waitrose ISP account. I am using this one rather than my ukonline one because ukonline requires my box to fetch DNS addresses every time it logs on, whereas Waitrose has static ones - keep it simple. I have run pppconfig and entered all the detai