Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:57:41 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I want to smurf the Internet using Netscape. How? Message-ID: <20000821145741.C73946@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <000a01c009d3$3d42a0a0$350e23d4@gdb>; from GDB on Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:47:21PM %2B0200 References: <000a01c009d3$3d42a0a0$350e23d4@gdb>
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Thus spake GDB (g-d-b@freegates.be): > I have a simple modem on com3. Now I want to surf the Internet using Netscape Navigator 3 (because it's on my FreeBSD 3.2 4 CD set -- Communicator 4 is also on the set but doesn't want to run.). > > Now I do: > > #ppp<enter> > ...> dial provider<enter> > ppp>... > . > . > . > PPP><I don't do anything anymore at this point> > > > > In an xterm window, I do: > > #netscape& > > But Netscape says: Netscape is unable to locate the server: home.netscape.com. The server does not have a DNS entry. > > > my etc/host.conf file: > hosts > bind > > my etc/resolv.conf: > nameserver <my ISP DNS1> > nameserver <my ISP DNS2> > > my etc/hosts: > <same as on the CD set, I didn't change anything> > > > What am I doing wrong? Most likely your ppp.conf # set login "ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 ogin:--ogin: ppp word: ppp" set authname name set authkey passwd set timeout 360 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 delete ALL add 0 0 HISADDR enable dns set dns their_DNSes -Wash > > PS: in ppp, I also get a "silo overflow" message: is it save to ignore this? > > > -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -W. H. Auden (contributed by Chris Johnston) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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