From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 02:43:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA18752 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 02:43:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from oznet02.ozemail.com.au (root@oznet02.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.124]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA18740 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 02:43:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell02.ozemail.com.au (rlyon@shell02.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.163]) by oznet02.ozemail.com.au (8.7.1/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA17743; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 21:43:19 +1100 (EST) Received: (from rlyon@localhost) by shell02.ozemail.com.au (8.7.1/8.6.12) id VAA22971; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 21:43:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 21:43:16 +1100 (EST) From: Richard Lyon To: Dan mackey cc: Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User PPP In-Reply-To: <30DA4DF9.21EF@oz.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Dan mackey wrote: > I recently installed Freebsd 2.1 and have been tryint to get ppp > working for the last week. I followed all the instructions in the > freebsd handbook under uppp and am still haveing problems. I can get it > to dial and login ok but when i try to ping ftp or use anyother program > it ether sits there for 5 minutes and times out or says host lookup > failer. Can anyone help ? > > Thanks > User PPP definitely works! A simple typo can cause many hours grief. Are you running a simple standalone machine with no network cards? Check you have the correct ISP nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf. Check you have hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf /etc/sysconfig is bit of a minefield. Are you getting any routed error messages? If you want I could send a copy of all the files I modified with comments. The fact you have managed to logon is encouraging. Regards Richard Lyon ...