🚀 go-pugleaf

wow. Just adding his ISP`s dns server to /etc/resolv.conf would more
than likely fix the problem.

darrin

Michael Strates wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Patrick D Phillips wrote:
> 
> * Your posting exceeds 80 characters per line!
> 
> 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 **
> ** file. You can safety press Next now, if you aren't interested!!    **
> 
> 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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