John Shepherd([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I've been making some progress with this > first attempt at GNU/Linux and am really learning > a lot. I have hit a bit of a problem with > getting an internet connection going, though. I > hope someone can help. > Thats what this list is for! > I seem to be succesfully making a PPP > connection with wvdial. (I haven't got x-windows > going yet, so everything is from command line > interface). The PPP connection with wvdial gets > going seemingly fine, and I switch to another > logon session with alt-F2. At that point > ifconfig shows the ppp0 entry and its looking > good. There is a local IP number and a remote IP > number. Sounds right. Would help if you post its contents tho. Saves guessing. > I can ping the remote IP number > successfully. When I attempt to ping a server by > name, it just hangs. I am able to 'telnet' to > one rutgers server by ip number only as well. > Lynx is unable to browse any webpages by named > URL. Tharts Weird! > /etc/resolv.conf has two nameserver entries > and I have verified with my ISP (rutgers > university) that they are correct. > Unfortunately, the person at the help desk I > spoke with there stated that they "do not support > linux" so I wasn't able to get any further help > from him. I can't believe rutgers really doesn't > support linux, so I will be pursuing that > further. Usually means "We only support Microsoft (because we have a cheat sheet to fix Windows problems) and there are too many Linux Dists to clutter my mind with" > In any event, I would appreciate any > suggestions for other places I may need to change > configurations. I think I'm almost there..... > (for now, at least. I'll probably be back to try > to figure out why x-server won't start after I > get this one licked). >
John 1. To get help you will find that starting a new thread works better than hi-jacking someone elses thread. 2. As there are 3 current versions of Debian, we may need to know which one you are using to be able to help you. Do less /etc/debian_version. Ok, to your problem. If you can do everything using IP's and not host names, it is a DNS problem. Weird that lynx works tho.... What is in /etc/host.conf? It should look like this order hosts,bind multi on Post the contents of /etc/resolv.conf Did you install a DNS server (bind or pdnsd)? If so, they may be misconfigured. I would suggest that, unless you have some pressing need for wvdial, you install pppconfig. It works great and is very easy to set up. -- Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. _______________________________________________________
