From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 07:08:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA13212 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 07:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA13206 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 07:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maryann.eng.umd.edu (maryann.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.209]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA15272; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:07:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by maryann.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA06739; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:07:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:07:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@maryann.eng.umd.edu To: thekork@xtdl.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP setup Need Help! In-Reply-To: <199606041333.JAA06182@user.xtdl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Jun 1996 thekork@xtdl.com wrote: > Hi there. Well, I am running FreeBSD, 2.1.0 and have been tring to setup PPP. > I can get it to dial out, and then connect to my ISP, and then my ISP issues me > my IP address, the problem that I am having is that I cannot do ANY activities > with it. Everytime I try PING or telnet, it comes up with an error message. If > I try to run netscape, it says there is no DNS. WHat is happening? I don't understand it! At a guess, you didn't set a nameserver address in your /etc/resolv.conf file. If it were me, I would put several nameservers in that file, because if you only put one, and that one stops for any reason, you're out of luck. Do a 'man 5 resolver'. > > Help! > > JAson "thekork" korkin > > e-mail: thekork@xtdl.com > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------