Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 02:43:06 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Nathan Gould <ngould@zoo.co.uk>, nathan.gould@pgen.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limited ppp Message-ID: <199801260243.CAA07818@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Jan 1998 22:03:42 GMT." <34CBB6BE.DCFECDD@zoo.co.uk>
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> I've recently got FreeBSD 2.2.5-stable through the post (upgrading from > 2.1) and everything seems fine apart from my ppp connection to the > Internet. Although I can connect, I have limited access to sites (e.g. > www.altavista.digital.com does not work). My system is a three machine > network: 2 PCs running FreeBSD and Windows 95 (for work purposes - not > by choice!) and a Sun Sparc. My internet connections is via the FreeBSD > PC. I have configured the usual (ie. ppp.conf, ppp.linkup, et al, > resolve.conf to include the DNS servers of my ISP) but to no avail. I'm > a bit stuck on this one. It's probably something stupid I've done but > would appreciate any advice. > > I connect to zoo.co.uk as my ISP which allocates IP address - I have > tried changing things such as my domain name to zoo.co.uk and my > hostname to ngould (account is ngould@zoo.co.uk) but to no avail. What > am I doing wrong? Hmm, I don't think anyone can help a bug report that says "I've got limited access, for example www.altavista.digital.com doesn't work". Take a look at http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html and see if it helps. If not, post your config files, the output to netstat and the relevant logs and we should be able to help. > Yours, hopefully, > > Nathan > ngould@zoo.co.uk > > PS. Please reply also to nathan.gould@pgen.com as recieveing mail is > difficult as a result! Cheers. -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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