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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 1998 21:36:37 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Haydar <haydar@worldonline.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp
Message-ID:  <19981115213637.A12482@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <005001be10d6$a7433d40$1d99f1c3@haydar>
References:  <005001be10d6$a7433d40$1d99f1c3@haydar>

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Haydar wrote:

> I can now make a ppp connection, but i can't use it, when i use netscape i
> get the error massage:
> Error DNS Not Found (or something like this).

um... I think you need to put your ISP's nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf,
something like

nameserver 1.2.3.4
nameserver 4.5.6.7

or whatever they might be.

Also, you should make sure /etc/host.conf says

hosts
bind

in that order. And in hosts, something like

127.0.0.1	localhost

-- 
Ben Smithurst
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