From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 20:39:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edtnps05.telusplanet.net (edtnps05.telusplanet.net [198.161.157.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F6714D58 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kellutz@telusplanet.net) Received: from clgrtnt2-port-286.agt.net ([161.184.44.32]:1217 "EHLO telusplanet.net") by edtnps05.telusplanet.net with ESMTP id <540327-6614>; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:36:51 -0600 Message-ID: <37141B7C.6057793E@telusplanet.net> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:37:16 -0700 From: Patrick Lutz Reply-To: kellutz@telusplanet.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: connecting to ISP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I doubt that the problem is having FreeBSD and Winblows 95 on the computer. >It sounds like it is in the DNS lookup, or the PPP config files. In your >/etc/ppp/ppp.linkup file you should have some lines like: >MYADDR: # or 'your_isp_name:', if you connect using "ppp -ddial >your_isp_name" (or ppp -auto or whatever). >delete ALL >add 0 0 HISADDR >That will make sure that you have a gateway address to your isp. When I >installed 3.1-Release, there was a comment that said this wasn't needed >anymore, but it didn't work without it for me. If that doesn't work, it's >probably in your DNS lookup (does it take a long time for it to tell you >that it can't find the domain name, or does it pop up right away?). Thanks! I added a '#' after MYADDR: in the ppp.linkup file, and now when I ping the ifconfig numbers, I get a response. A step in the right direction. My next problem is that the ftp still has a "Host name lookup failure." message that appears when I try to connect for downloading ports. This message comes up immediately. What did I do wrong, did I miss something in resolv.conf? Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message