On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Kevin The King Thomson wrote:

> I am trying to run PPP dial-up access to the internet.   I am able to 
> ping my ISP, but I am not able to use any other services.   I do not 
> know what operating system they are using, but my first thought is 
> that they must be using Windows NT (or '98).
> If this is my problem, what should I do?   And if not, could there be 
> something else I could try?
> 

If you mean that you can ping by IP address, but have problems when you
type in a hostname then your problem is that you didn't specify a
nameserver(s) in /etc/resolve.conf

the form of this file is:

domain your.domain.com
nameserver ###.###.###.###

Hope this helps.

--
Steve Feehan                      
System Administrator 
Computing and Information Science    ICQ: 9751775
Kansas State University              http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~steve/


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