Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Hi. > > I use ppp to connect to my provider. When it connects, I can do "ping", > everything's OK. > However, I can't do ftp or smtp or http; il lasts for years and nothing > happens. > When I run ftp, I get the message "Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx", and then > nothing happens. > I can't access the remote machine. I can't read my mail or surf either. > > Please help ! > > Thanks. > > Petru
Petru, It sounds as though you've made the connection to your provider, and ppp is working fine; but your system can't find the nameserver. Did you put your provider's domain and nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf? My ISP's domain is io.com. The nameserver is 199.170.88.29. I put the following into /etc/resolv.conf: search io.com nameserver 199.170.88.29 I hope this helps. Andrew Gould
