Re: HELP, Shaw cable modem

1998-10-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Maheu wrote: [ snip ] : *.*.*.*.edbd1.ab.wave.home.com : ^^ : should this be my new domainname? I have a sneaky suspicion that Shaw's forward and reverse lookups don't jive. Do an nslookup on the IP address you are assigned. Now do a fo

Re: HELP, Shaw cable modem

1998-10-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Maheu wrote: > Having just had a cable modem installed on my home machine I > find I can't telnet/ftp to most machines. I can't ftp to > ftp.debian.org. I know my domainname is not > correct, and the dnslookup is causing the problem. How can I fix this? > How do I chang

HELP, Shaw cable modem

1998-10-21 Thread John Maheu
Having just had a cable modem installed on my home machine I find I can't telnet/ftp to most machines. I can't ftp to ftp.debian.org. I know my domainname is not correct, and the dnslookup is causing the problem. How can I fix this? How do I change my domainname on a debian system? Running Deb2,