From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 28 08:27:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15627 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stress.idcomm.com (stress.idcomm.com [207.40.196.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15622 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:27:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alexd@idcomm.com) Received: from alex-d (source-int.idcomm.com [209.60.72.244]) by stress.idcomm.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA24536 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:26:25 -0700 Message-ID: <015601be028f$67e51d80$6000a8c0@alex-d> From: "Alex Davidson" To: "FreeBSD Newbies" Subject: How to test my ISP connection Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:23:42 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Now that I suspect ppp is connecting to my ISP successfully I want to test the connection by running ftp or lynx. However, when I type lynx it doesn't know what I'm talking about so maybe it's not installed (where would I find it if it is installed?). ftp works but what is the syntax to connect to a site? I have trid ftp ftp.netscape.com and it says it can't connect to the site. Thanks, Alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alex Davidson Email/PowWow: alexd@idcomm.com http://www.idcomm.com/personal/alexd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message