need help with dhclient.conf

[Andrew Plata]

I live in Toronto, Canada and I use Rogers Cable as my ISP. I am currently running Progeny Debian 1.0 and trying to configure dhclient.conf as my dhcp client for my IP address to be assigned to me dynamically. I have added my hostname to this file, uncommented the line, and restarted my system. But I can only ping the loopback. I also cannot ftp, telnet, or ssh because the host I am trying to connect to cannot be found. Can anyone help? Thanks, Wildjsse