On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Ronnie Cooley wrote: > Hello I have installed debian2.1 > I get pings back when i ping my router and when i ping my isp from debian. > But when i start BitchX it will do nothing but blink at me. > Any ideas. > the puter that has linux on it is networked to another computer both hooked > to same router > i can get on the net in windows on both machines but not when i am in > debian on the second computer,
You don't give me nearly enough information to determine what's wrong, so you'll need to do some detective work. (FWIW, the computer I'm typing on is a Debian 2.1 system connected through a Pipeline 75 to the computer that runs the mail client, so it's not something inherent in Debian.) What services have you attempted to use besides IRC? Does ftp/telnet/http/whatever else work or not? If everything works from Linux, then you've probably got a BitchX configuration problem of some sort. (Not necessarily, though. It might still be a routing problem.) In any other case, then I need to know if the name resolution is functional: When you ping, do you have to enter an IP address, or can you use a name? If entering a name never works, then edit resolv.conf(5) to add the proper name server addresses. Otherwise, it's likely you have a routing problem. Make sure that all three pieces (the two computers and the router) have an IP address, that those IP addresses are all different, that those IP addresses were all assigned to you (or are RFC-1918 addresses which are different from those that your ISP may use) and that the netmasks are correct. If the same computer with the same IP address works under Windows-95 and not under Linux, then the problem is almost certainly that the netmask or default gateway is set incorrectly. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
