From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 22:26:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13002 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 22:26:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag2p04.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12973 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 22:26:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA04008; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 17:25:40 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 17:25:40 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: guy@cnwl.igs.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Dial Out Connection Problem In-Reply-To: <199901070620.BAA04253@host.cnwl.igs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 guy@cnwl.igs.net wrote: [snip..] > When my FreeBSD machine trys to connect to my provider, it > connects, the provider can see me via ping just once and then I do > not show up on his pings. I stay connected but do not have the > ability to get anywhere. > Make sure you have /etc/resolv.conf set up. It should look like this.. domain igs.net nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy nameserver zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz You can have up to 3 NS's specified.. if you've only got 2, use 2. If you still have problems, try upgrading to the latest version of ppp which you can get from http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html. Also, if you're still stuck, email me and I'll see what I can do to help you out. Hope this helps, -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message