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In alt.os.linux.caldera Wayne Fallen <wfallen@cai-mail.tpgi.com.au> wrote:
> I have just installed Caldera OpenLinux BASE 1.2 and cannot successfully
> connect to my ISP.

> I believe I have properly placed the necessary information into the PPP-ON
> and Resolve.conf.  I have set my path to find the files including these in
> the /etc/ppp/ directory.

> What happens is I dial into the ISP, and connect ok using either Minicom or
> PPP-ON.  I fire up either Lynx or Netscape 4.04 but get an error message
> indicating 'Unable to connect ot remote host' (Lynx), and 'unable to locate
> server' 'this server does not have a DNS entry'  (Netscape).

> I have tried ping to my ISP and get 'unknown host' 

This is the key, in order to find the name, you need to tell your computer 
where it can find a name server.  This is done with an entry in the file
/etc/resolv.conf:

domain - has the name of your ISP
search - same as domain
nameserver - the nameserver IP supplied by your ISP (may be more then 1)

for example I have

domain interlog.com
search interlog.com
nameserver 198.53.145.4
nameserver 198.53.145.2

they have two nameservers, so there are two nameserver lines, if they had 
only 1 then there would be only 1, if they have 3 then there would be three,
etc.  

The /etc/hosts.conf file should contain two lines: 
order hosts,bind
multi on

This should get you working, the nameserver info should have been supplied 
by your ISP when you signed up, if not, then give them a call.

-- 
Paul Schmidt
Your Computer is our Business
email: pschmidt@interlog.com
web  : www.interlog.com/~pschmidt