David Hart wrote:
> This is kind of a shot in the dark, but maybe somebody out there will
> have a clue. One of the local dial-up ISP's I use recently mergered with a
> larger organization, and part of the process involved making the old DNS
> servers and other local hardware redundant, as well as "upgrading" their lines
> (and possibly other hardware). Before these changes, I had no problems using
> KPPP to establish a connection. Just plug in the DNS and phone numbers and off
> we go. But since the changes were made, I get nothing. To be precise, I dial
> up, it logs in, everything seems fine, but Netscape goes nowhere. The
> connection seems to be there, but addresses never resolve and I'm left
> looking at a blank browser window forever. Same thing applies with any other
> net utility I try. Now the weird thing is that using exactly the same
> configuration from Dial-Up Networking on my win98 partition works just fine.
> Same DNS, same everything, except it actually works.
> Now, of course, the ISP doesn't support linux and haven't been
> particularly forecoming about PPP changes they made. So does anybody have a
> guess I could try? The authorization protocol isn't the problem, so I'm
> guessing there might be some PPP parameters that dial-up networking can figure
> out on it's own, but need to be manually entered for KPPP.
> Help?
>
> --
> David Hart
> Vincity Design
> *Proudly sent from Linux Mandrake 6.1*
More likely it is the DNS servers. Windows looks for them, in most
configurations (or re-looks for them)
First, see if you can ping the DNS servers you have listed. If that works, try
this....
first use 209.193.30.245 as a DNS server in your list(it is a valid internet
DNS server even if your search has to route through Alaska, which it will) If
services return then....
In an xterm
# host -a www.mylamerisp.com.
(note the ending period)
Now you should see some Authoritative machine interfaces. Choose their IPs as
your DNS Servers
If it is in fact the DNS servers, your problems should end at this point. If
not, I bet Ramon Gandia will have some better ideas.
And you are right, it should not be authentication
Civileme
