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On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Patrick D Phillips wrote:

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PDP> I am having some trouble trying to get my internet connection
PDP> working. I have been able to connect to my ISP O.K. and I get
PDP> allocated a TCP address but I am unable to use Netscape to do
PDP> any browsing. I type in an URL and it does nothing until timing
PDP> out. I have looked in the message logs and I see a regular
PDP> message “No link beat on the MII interface, status then 7809 now
PDP> 7809.” I am using Red Hat 5.2 and Netscape 4.07 and I have
PDP> checked that the DNS is correct. My ISP does not use a proxy and
PDP> they are unable to support Linux. As I am new to Linux any ideas
PDP> would be appreciated.

** This is a LONG Message, as it details the setup of a Dynamic hosts **
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The first thing I suggest to anyone with a Dynamic IP address is to make
sure their /etc/hosts file is updated automatically. This will make alot
of programs more comfortable. For these examples, we call your system
tigerbox. To find out your systems name, type hostname at your shell
prompt.

Open up /etc/hosts-down as root (it'll be a new file) and add the line
below:

127.0.0.1       tigerbox     localhost      tigerbox

The second column would usually have an FQDN, but in your case you don't
have a domain name, so we'll leave it out, and just write tigerbox. Most
things should look okay, except if a site does a reverse DNS lookup. Then,
that's bad news :-).

Then open up /etc/hosts-up and put the following in:

127.0.0.1      localhost
xxanchorxx     tigerbox   tigerbox

Insert the two lines into the file, making sure you DO NOT MODIFY
xxanchorxx. There MUST be xxanchorxx, and then spaces or a tab after it,
and then your site's FQDN (which you don't have). Sed needs to replace
xxanchorxx with your new IP address every time you login, so don't modify
it.

Depending on your distribution, open up /etc/ppp/ip-up file and add the
following line, to the end of the file, but it must be before the config
file calls another config file, ie: debian's runparts.

cat /etc/hosts-up | sed -e s/xxanchorxx/$4/g > /etc/hosts

Then open up /etc/ppp/ip-down and write the following in there, just
before the end.

cp /etc/hosts-down /etc/hosts

Add the above line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (distributions may differ) as
well, so every time you reboot the disconnected version of the file is
copied in.

Okay.. When you start your PPP connection, the /etc/hosts-up is modified
and xxanchorxx is automatically replaced by the IP address your given and
the new file is placed in /etc/hosts. When you close the connection,
/etc/hosts-down is copied into /etc/hosts to make things work whilst your
offline.

Bigpond has some problems, and I'm quite sure that they DO have a proxy.
Just ask them, I think its something like proxy-1.telstra.net or the
likes. Ring them up. It took me 2 1/2 hours to get to someone on bigpond
support (this was a while ago, I was helping out a friend) to get someone
that knew about Linux.. "You don't know what I'm talking about do you?",
"Yeah, Linux.. That's that new hamburger Hungry Jacks(tm) has got, isn't
it". "Yeah, that's right.. I'm putting up a website for Hungry Jacks!" :-)

If not, setup your own. Download the package for squid-novm and install it
carefully. A probably more suitable smaller cache, that can also do
offline viewing is called WWWOFFLE. I use that myself, and I've found it
quite satisfactory (albeit a little annoying whilst offline).

Can you please try a 

	nslookup www.linux.org.au

This will prove if/if not DNS is working. If it is, then can you please
e-mail me your /var/log/ppp.log (edited to remove your passwords if they
are in cleartext) and I'll see what else I can do to help.

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