From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 15 13:08:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02100 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:08:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ninbox.ml.org (hsv1-86.airnet.net [207.242.81.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02094 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ninbox.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00414; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:12:40 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <364F1997.BC39786@airnet.net> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:12:39 -0600 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Absolutely None! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ken keeler CC: Barry Monk , freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP and Netscape/DNS References: <001701be1096$44e5c400$a4b0e4d4@barrym> <364F11B3.3346EBEC@nwlink.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ken keeler wrote: > > Secondly, I am trying to use netscape to get onto the net, and when I launch > > it I get the following errors :- > > > > Netscape is unable to locate the server home.netscape.com > > the server does not have a DNS entry > > > > Warning : the following hosts are unknown :- > > > > myname.my.domain > > home.netscape.com > > home6.netscape.com > > internic.net > > [snip] > > Have you invoked ppp before running netscape? I always get that message > if ppp is not running first. I get those errors if I use netscape with ppp running. :-) I'm down the LAN using ppp -alias. I also run two different copies of named for internet-connected (+caching) and not-'net-connected (only local names resolve). A bit excessive, yes. But it works for me. -- Kris Kirby UAH Mail UAH CS Home WWW ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message