Re: PPP DNS Problem: Corrected!

2002-03-07 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 07:25:49AM -0800, John Shepherd wrote: > All, > > . I previously listed my machine's local network > IP address (192.168.1.1) as the "gateway address" > when setting up the network. I left gateway > address blank this time. That was probably it, not that I read your prev

PPP DNS Problem: Corrected!

2002-03-07 Thread John Shepherd
All, Thanks to all who responded to my question yesterday about my PPP setup. I corrected the problem last night. The problem was one of three things. Since my debian installation is so new that I have no personal data or customized settings, I just ran through the initial installa

Re: PPP DNS Problem

2002-03-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I can ping the remote IP number successfully. When I John> attempt to ping a server by name, it just hangs. I am able John> to 'telnet' to one rutgers server by ip number only as well. John> Lynx is unable to br

Re: PPP DNS Problem

2002-03-06 Thread Wayne Topa
John Shepherd([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I've been making some progress with this > first attempt at GNU/Linux and am really learning > a lot. I have hit a bit of a problem with > getting an internet connection going, though. I > hope someone can help. > Thats w

Re: PPP DNS Problem

2002-03-06 Thread John Shepherd
Yes, absolutely numeric form. No insult, thanks for trying to help. ~John --- Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I missed the original post. To the original > poster: Did you put the > nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf in numeric > form? > I hope my question did not insult your > intelligen

Re: PPP DNS Problem

2002-03-06 Thread John Shepherd
OK. I'll do that tomorrow after collecting it this evening. As best I recall, it is like below. I don't recall the ip numbers, though, so just putting x.x.x.x: # /etc/resolv.conf domain rutgers.edu nameserver x.x.x.x nameserver x.x.x.x Thanks, John --- John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: PPP DNS Problem

2002-03-06 Thread Pollywog
I missed the original post. To the original poster: Did you put the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf in numeric form? I hope my question did not insult your intelligence, but I have seen people put their nameservers in textual format and for obvious reasons, that does not work. -- Andrew O

Re: PPP DNS Problem

2002-03-06 Thread John Hasler
John writes: > /etc/resolv.conf has two nameserver entries and I have verified with my > ISP (rutgers university) that they are correct. Please post the _exact_ contents of /etc/resolv.conf. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

PPP DNS Problem

2002-03-06 Thread John Shepherd
Hi, I've been making some progress with this first attempt at GNU/Linux and am really learning a lot. I have hit a bit of a problem with getting an internet connection going, though. I hope someone can help. I seem to be succesfully making a PPP connection with wvdial. (I haven't got