From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 9:51: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DE237BE20 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:50:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nimrodm@bezeqint.net) Received: from bsd.net.il (bzq-173-99.bezeqint.net) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FZ1006Q6AKCCZ@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:46:00 +0300 (IDT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA61036 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:38:44 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 19:38:44 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: ppp / ISDN and Netscape In-reply-to: <3990915C.9178696C@bluewin.ch>; from carloma@bluewin.ch on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:01:48AM +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000809193844.B60561@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <3990915C.9178696C@bluewin.ch> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:01:48AM +0200, matteotti wrote: > Hello, > > I am using FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE. I connect to my ISP via ppp / ISDN. I > run isdnd as root, as well as ppp. When trying to use netscape as a > normal user a netscape message pops up saying: 'unable to locate server > www.bluewin.ch' (My ISP's server or whatever). But if I run netscape as > root, there is no problem. I have no explanation for this, since this > problem did not exist before I switched to ISDN, i.e. when I used ppp > / serial modem. The routing table has the correct entries, I enabled > dns in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, the entries in /etc/resolv.conf are correct. > My question: Is it possible to avoid running netscape as root ? If so, > what needs to be changed in which config file ? > First, don't run Netscape as root. New security holes are detected daily (well, maybe not that often but still...). Second, why do you run ppp as root? Add a line: allow users to your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and add yourself to group network. I.e., change file /etc/groups so that it has a line that reads something like this: network:*:69: As for the real problem, I don't have a clue. Isdn+netscape works just fine here, but you might want to try and use a numeric address in netscape instead of a domain name (just to make sure it's not a dns thing). Try, for example, 216.32.74.51, which is www.yahoo.com. Of course, check if this also happens when not in netscape (probably true): try 'ping www.yahoo.com' or something similar. Depending on your results, we may or may not be able to further help you. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message