I might have missed something earlier in this thread, but this really looks like a DNS problem to me. Is the "nameserver" line right in /etc/resolv.conf? Try specifying a known good IP address on the lynx command line:
$ lynx http://209.81.8.242/ That's the IP address my machine returned for www.debian.org. If you can connect, then your problem is almost certainly DNS. Marc ---------- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---------- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/20 2:38 PM >>> > I am a newbie and have just installed Debian. I need to connect to a website > to download an upgrade to xfree86. I put the url in my sources list, but when > I try apt-update, the response I get is that the website doesn't exist. I have > checked it and it exists. My ppp connection to my isp is working ok. but I > can't get to the website. Lynx doesn't connect to anything although I have put > a url in lynx.cfg. I have tried ncftp, but no hosts are recognized although I > use them in with other distributions. > Any recommendations? I am using Debian Gnu/linux that is publish by Oreilly. > System is asus p5a mo-board, amd k6-2 400 cpu, 128 mb ram. debian shares a > drive with win98. > steve w > I would have tried to use /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list because your problem might be with the entries you put in /etc/apt/sources.list. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
