From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 18:31:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cannet.com (cannet.com [206.156.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFEC815873 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from BenG%thekeyboard.com@all-ts3-dyn09.cannet.com) Received: from all-ts3-dyn09.cannet.com by mail.cannet.com id aa13276; 14 Apr 1999 21:29 EDT Message-ID: <371540C0.441FEC7F@thekeyboard.com> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:28:32 -0400 From: Benjamin George X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kellutz@telusplanet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Connecting to ISP References: <371417D2.DF70A7A3@telusplanet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick Lutz wrote: > Thanks! I added a '#' after MYADDR: in the ppp.linkup file, and now > when I ping the ifconfig numbers, I get a response. A step in the right > direction. > > My next problem is that the ftp still has a "Host name lookup failure." > message that appears when I try to connect for downloading ports. This > message comes up immediately. What did I do wrong, did I miss something > in resolv.conf? > > Patrick The '#' shouldn't make any difference... anything to the right of the '#' is a comment. The important part is the " add 0 0 HISADDR" (MUST be indented one space) that comes on the line after "MYADDR:" (or, atleast, after that line, before another label - a line followed by a ":"). This ensures that the ppp program (you are using user ppp, aren't you?) knows the ip addresses to contact your ISP. I think this is probably your problem, since you get the error right away. If you get this part working, it should work, or take at least 15 seconds (probably longer) before you get the lookup error. (Because it will try to contact your DNS server, and it will have the 'gateway' to your ISP, so it will have to timeout if it can't connect to the DNS server... and that takes a little while.) Hope this helps. P.S. It doesn't matter if my address is capitalized or not... technecally it isn't, but it works both ways :-) -- My Waterskiing Pages (Barefoot & Wakeboarding): http://waterski.pharamond.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message