Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:12:39 -0600 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: ken keeler <kkeysler@nwlink.com> Cc: Barry Monk <ba.monk@time-off.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP and Netscape/DNS Message-ID: <364F1997.BC39786@airnet.net> References: <001701be1096$44e5c400$a4b0e4d4@barrym> <364F11B3.3346EBEC@nwlink.com>
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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 <kirbyk@email.uah.edu> UAH CS <kkirby@cs.uah.edu> Home <kris@airnet.net> WWW <nomurphy@hotmail.com> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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