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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:07:12 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Allen Louden <alouden@access.mountain.net>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ppp
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On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 06:15:27PM -0400, Allen Louden wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I am attempting to get ppp working and when I ping my providers primary dns
> I get a "no route to host" message. I am using the ppp.conf from the
> Pedantic Primer. Any help will be appreciated.

Check that you've defined a default route.  If you have, let's see the
output from:

1.  Output from

    ifconfig -a
    netstat -rn
    cat /etc/resolv.conf

2.  IP addresses of:

    Your ISP's gateway
    Your ISP's DNS server.

Greg