From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 14:38:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377BA4087 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:38:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat7.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.199]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id AAA05459 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 00:38:14 +0200 Received: (qmail 83154 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Feb 2000 14:53:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:53:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Danny Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dialup problem (was: no subject) Message-ID: <20000204165314.A82937@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 07:09:21PM +1100, Danny wrote: > Question > > 1) a user has a dial up problem > 2) Dialed in sucessfully > 3) goto http://www.freebsd.org > 4) I can't goto the web site. > 5) Make sure proxy was on > 6) can't go to the web site > 7) Try telnet to somehwere.somewhere.com > 8) Can't telnet. Seems like a DNS problem to me. One way to solve this is to write manually a resolv.conf that contains the proper nameserver lines, i.e. nameserver 1.2.3.4 where 1.2.3.4 is your ISP's nameserver IP address. I think that both ppp and pppd have an option to "enable dns", but I haven't used it much lately. I'm sure the relevant manpages are more up to date on this one than my memory. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message