Date: Thu, 2 Jul 98 17:45:20 +0200 From: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr To: brownicm@netunlimited.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9p_:_Re:_R*p_:_newbie_PPP_question?= Message-ID: <H000057c016b319d@MHS> In-Reply-To: <359BA820.84049B7C@netunlimited.net>
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just set these two lines in resolv.conf :
208.128.132.1
208.128.132.1
no names in it !!!
this file tells the TCP/IP stack where to look when it wants to
translate a name into an IP address / if you put names there's a
chicken-and-egg problem ....
TfH
PS after that, you'll be able to ping ftp.netscape.com ... le bonheur
!!!
____________________________ Séparateur Réponse ________________________________
Objet : Re: R*p : newbie PPP question
Auteur : brownicm@netunlimited.net
Date : 02/07/98 17:32
1) OK, that makes sense. I went through the chapter on DNS and it seems that wha
t I
want in resolv.conf is:
malachi 127.0.0.1 #my machine
ns.netunlimited.net 208.128.132.1 #my ISP's nameserver #1
ns2.netunlimited.net 208.128.132.2 #my ISP's nameserver #2
Yes? No? Leave off the domain suffix? Anything else? Does the system ever write
to
this file?
2) Yes, I can elaborate. As I said, I run ppp and log in with userid and passwor
d
(manually, I'm still working on the script...later). My ppp prompt changes from
'ppp' to 'PPP'. Now I can't issue anything but ppp commands here, so I alt-f2 to
another console and invoke lynx. Lynx seems to hunt for the lynx home URL (I don
't
recall it exactly) and I get an error msg 'lynx.?????.edu not found' and it exit
s.
In XWindows I open an xterm and run ppp from there, going through the same proce
ss
as on the console. I open netscape and get an error window with 'home.netscape.c
om
not found'. If I enter a URL and hit 'go' I get nothing. Running lynx in an xter
m
gives the same result as the console. I can ping from an xterm. I know I'm missi
ng
something really stoopid here, but I'm clueless. I do appreciate all your help.
Also, another dumb question. Should I be able to ping names as well as numeric?
I
can't. Does this relate to 1) above?
THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> even if you don't run a DNS **server** (named / BIND), you sould
> definitely use resolv.conf to map symbolic addresses (ftp.cdrom.com)
> to 32 bit IP addresses.
>
> Could you be more elaborate on "I can't get netscape or lynx to work"
>
> TfH
>
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