Linux-Misc Digest #999, Volume #24 Fri, 30 Jun 00 13:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: ipchains and icq (Akira Yamanita)
Realaudio/vsound (Ben van Mol)
Re: Security problem (Miguel)
Re: getting software (John Gluck)
Re: LILO Serial Support (Gilles POIRET)
Re: dd of DOS MBR wanted (to boot dos on hdb) (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Can't Boot from Compiled Kernel (2.2.13) (smp root)
DNS problem(I think) ("Joris Maes")
Re: Emergency boot diskette (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Connecting Dumb Terminals (Rick Pasotto)
Re: Connecting Dumb Terminals (Rick Pasotto)
Re: Gnome file manager (Rick Pasotto)
NFS delay problem. ("Jacek M. Holeczek")
Re: How to let NT and LINUX live together ?
Re: Athlon MB, disk (Was: Building a speedboat...)
Re: DNS problem(I think) (Andreas Schweitzer)
Re: dd of DOS MBR wanted (to boot dos on hdb) (Homer Jay)
Re: DNS problem(I think) (nathan wagner)
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipchains and icq
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:15:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What is the correct command for a linux masquerading box
> to restrict icq connection from the clients?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
ipchains -I output -p udp --dport 4000 -j REJECT
That inserts the rule as the first output rule. If you know
where to place it in the firewall script, just use -A instead
of -I so it simply adds it.
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From: Ben van Mol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Realaudio/vsound
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:19:31 GMT
I am trying to convert a realaudio-stream to a wav-file with vsound.
Therefor I entered the following command:
vsound -f output.wav rvplayer http://url_to_ram-file
Normally this should work, but I get this error
/usr/local/bin/vsound: /tmp/vsound18446.ioctl: Unknown file or directory
sox:Can't open input file '/tmp/vsound18446.raw':Unknown file or
directory
Does anybody have an idea what those ioctl files do, or how I can get
rid of this error?
Thanx,
Ben
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From: Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Security problem
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:22:55 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"David .." wrote:
>
> Miguel wrote:
> >
> You have to tell the system to use "limits.conf"
> Add a line like this down at the bottom above any optional settings like
> this.
>
> vi /etc/pam.d/login
>
> session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so
I already have that line in that file
Miguel
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From: John Gluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: getting software
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:20:33 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do Linux (RedHat specifically) users usually get software? For
> example, I want Xemacs and Pine. Obviously, I can't search the web with
> altavista and then download rpm's from random sites, as they can be
> trojaned. Is there any standard procedure for getting Linux software
> that I'm not aware of?
>
> Thanks a bunch
>
> Wroot
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
This is linux not windows...
As far as I know there are no trojans on linux (unless some Greek geek
recently created an app called trojan)
--
John Gluck (Passport Kernel Design Group)
(613) 765-8392 ESN 395-8392
Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed here are strictly my own
and do not reflect any official position of Nortel Networks.
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From: Gilles POIRET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO Serial Support
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:20:22 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> From: Brian Weisberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to configure a linux system to use the serial port for
> total
> administration. Currently, I am able to:
>
> View the kernel loading - this was done by appending
> "console=ttyS0
> console=tty0" to the linux boot parameters.
> Obtain a serial console - by setting another terminal is
> /etc/inittab and allowing root connections by adding 'ttyS0' to the
> /etc/securetty.
>
> However, I'm unable to get the LILO prompt to be displayed
> (correctly)
> through the serial port. I need to be able to change the kernel boot
> parameters through the serial port, not just access a terminal.
Hi, i want to do the same thing than you.
And I succeed in "catching LILO's attention", and have a prompt on the
terminal. (by sending a break signal via the serial line)
But, I can't use the keyboard of my terminal to give parameters to LILO.
So, if you known how to use terminal keyboard to do that, I take it !
This is my conf :
****** /etc/lilo.conf **********
append = "console=ttyS1,9600"
boot=/dev/hda
compact
delay=60
vga=normal
root = current
serial=/boot/zImage
image=/boot/zImage
label=test
********** /etc/inittab ********** I added (or better, uncommented :):
TO:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100
> However, I have tried some of the suggestions out there (such as
> adding
> 'serial=0,9600n8' or 'serial=0' to my /etc/lilo.conf global section)
> and
> none have given me a working version of LILO (I'm getting much better
> at
> recovering from bad LILO configurations, though... )
>
> Can anyone help? I'm looking to get this done ASAP so that I can
> publish get an update to this project out the door (and on the net)
> by
> the end of this week.
>
> Thanks a lot...
> Brian Weisberg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: dd of DOS MBR wanted (to boot dos on hdb)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:38:25 GMT
Homer Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Right now, if I point lilo to hdb1 or minix monitor to hdb6 (=hdb1),
>I get "invalid system disk". Inserting a dos boot floppy works ok
>and I can switch to the C: filesystem just fine. I want to do this
>front the bootloaders however.
Is C: a FAT16 or a FAT32 partition?
--
Svend Olaf
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Subject: Re: Can't Boot from Compiled Kernel (2.2.13)
From: smp root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:42:26 -0700
yeah, i'll give you that one, i didn't really have my wits about
me when i wrote that one. it was a stupid question :-)
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From: "Joris Maes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DNS problem(I think)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:44:07 +0200
Hi,
After long and hard work I finally got my isdncard working, but now I'm
really stuck, I can't get no further, I read several howto's, searched the
internet(with winblows), but I can't find an answer.
When I connect to the internet (ISP=freegates, Belgium), I can see all
the sites from my ISP, I mean that I can browse the sites from the domain,
freegates.be (actually they changed it to Tiscally), but any other sites are
unavailable. I can't even ping them, but I can perform an nslookup, and get
some IP's, but I can't ping them, I keep getting "Network unreachable".
I would realy like to solve this problem, any help is appreciated.
This is what I thougt was necessary top include, if there isn't enough
information, let me knwown and I'll post the rest.
Thanks Joris
#/etc/resolv.conf
search maes.be #tried with of without this line
nameserver 212.35.2.1
nameserver 212.35.2.2
nameserver 90.0.0.1
#/etc/named.conf
options {
directory "/var/named";
forward only;
forwarders{
212.35.2.1;#nameserver of my provider
212.35.2.2;#idem
};
};
head 1.1;
access;
symbols;
locks;
comment @# @;
1.1 date 2000.03.20.11.34.25;
author root;
state Exp;
branches;
next;
desc @@ 1.1 log @Initial revision @ text @### file exist ###// generated by
named-bootconf.pl
options{
directory "/var/named";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/ // query-source address * port 53;
};
@;
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"{
type master;
file "named.local";
};
#the script to create ippp0
MYUSER=jorismaes # mijn username bij ISP
REMNAME=freegates # naam van ISP's systeem
MYIP=0.0.0.0 # mijn vast IP nummer (gebruik 10.0.0.2 als je geen vast
IP hebt)M
REMIP=212.35.2.1 # IP nummer van ISP (deze is bijna altijd wel vast)
MYMSN=93550538 # mijn nummer, zonder 0, met netnummer
REMMSN=092700420 # nummer van ISP
REMMSN2=034000420 # als de andere in gesprek is...
/sbin/isdnctrl verbose 3 # was waarschijnlijk al
/sbin/isdnctrl system on # idem; maar voor de zekerheid...
/sbin/isdnctrl addif ippp0 # eerste moet altijd ippp0 zijn
/sbin/isdnctrl eaz ippp0 $MYMSN
/sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out $REMMSN2 # laatste ingevuld wordt
/sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out $REMMSN # als eerste gebeld!!
/sbin/isdnctrl huptimeout ippp0 90 # na 90 sec geen verkeer: ophangen
/sbin/isdnctrl l2_prot ippp0 hdlc # default, mag weggelaten worden
/sbin/isdnctrl l3_prot ippp0 trans # ook default
/sbin/isdnctrl encap ippp0 syncppp # we want syncPPP, dammit!
#/sbin/isdnctrl status ippp0 on # indien gebruik gemaakt wordt van HiSax
3.0
/sbin/isdnctrl dialmode ippp0 manual # als 2.0.36 gebruikt wordt (of CVS
versie)
/sbin/ifconfig ippp0 $MYIP pointopoint $REMIP
/sbin/route add $REMIP ippp0 # $REMIP is via ippp0 te bereiken
/sbin/route add default netmask 0 ippp0 # alle non-lokaal verkeer gaat
via ippp0
/sbin/ifconfig ippp0 -arp -broadcast # geen arps en broadcasts toegestaan
/sbin/ipppd user $MYUSER remotename $REMNAME \
$MYIP:$REMIP \
name $MYUSER \
-detach \
mru 1500 \
mtu 1500 \
lcp-restart 1 \
/dev/ippp0 &
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Emergency boot diskette
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:59:51 -0400
don't know about TurboLinux, but two things to try are 1) downloading a
rescue disk off the net, and 2) looking at the cdrom folder that
contains disk images to see if there is a rescue image included.
Jeff Malka wrote:
>
> I am a newbie who has installed TurboLinux 6 workstation just fine. However
> I do not recall during the installation being asked to create an emergency
> boot diskette (that I read about in books). How do I go about that in an
> installed system?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Pasotto)
Subject: Re: Connecting Dumb Terminals
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:15:44 GMT
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:58:26 +1000 in comp.os.linux.misc, Russell wrote:
> I would like to setup a dumb terminal to my linux server, does anyone know
> how to do this, do i need any special software or is there any software that
> needs to be used for connecting server to terminal
>
> I need some ideas
The cable needs to be a null-modem cable (swap 2 & 3).
If there is not already a getty running on the serial port uncomment the
appropriate line in /etc/inittab. Issue a 'telinit -q' command as root.
You should see a login on the dumb terminal.
You may need to adjust the TERM variable depending on what kind of dumb
terminal you have.
--
"A moral code impossible to practice, a code that demands imperfection
or death, has taught you to dissolve all ideas in fog, to permit no
firm definitions, to regard any concept as approximate & any rule of
conduct as elastic, to hedge on any principle, to compromise on any
value, to take the middle of any road."
-- Ayn Rand
Rick Pasotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Pasotto)
Subject: Re: Connecting Dumb Terminals
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:17:06 GMT
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:02:54 +0100 in comp.os.linux.misc, A Ominous wrote:
> Start -> Run
> type "telnet linux-host" ;)
A dumb terminal is *dumb*. There is no "start". There is no "run". There
is no "telnet".
> Russell wrote:
>
> > I would like to setup a dumb terminal to my linux server, does anyone know
> > how to do this, do i need any special software or is there any software that
> > needs to be used for connecting server to terminal
> >
> > I need some ideas
> >
> > thanx in advanced
>
> --
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>
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Rick Pasotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Pasotto)
Subject: Re: Gnome file manager
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:19:01 GMT
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:36:33 GMT in comp.os.linux.misc,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I remove this annoying message that comes up with I start the
> Gnome file manager?
>
> 'Warning: You are running file manager as root. You can do much
> damage...'
Don't login as root.
--
"Capitalism, or the market economy, or the free-enterprise system...
was not planned. Like life on earth, it did not need to be.
Capitalism just happened, & it will keep on happening. Quite
spontaneously. Capitalism flourishes whenever it is not suppressed,
because it is a naturally occurring phenomenon. It is the way human
society organizes itself for survival in a world of limited
resources."
-- Michael Rothschild 1992 _Bionomics_ pg xi
Rick Pasotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jacek M. Holeczek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS delay problem.
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:22:11 +0200
Hi,
I have here some RedHat 6.1/i386 machines. One of them is a file server
which exports the home filesystem to all others (I use knfsd-1.4.7-7 and
knfsd-clients-1.4.7-7 rpms). The other side uses amd (am-utils-6.0.1-4
rpm) to automount this filesystem.
Quite often one edits a file on the server, saves changes, and then
compiles the source on another machine. The "make" often fails to see that
the source code file was changes. Usually it takes up to some 20 seconds
for the machine that mounts the filesystem with the source code file to
notice that it was changed (I can do "head my.file" and see that for a
quite long time the contents is not "updated", while directly on the
server it is).
Any help appreciated,
Thanks in advance,
Jacek.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to let NT and LINUX live together ?
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:25:23 -0400
> Voila, when I get to lilo screen, I can boot to linux or W2K. I don't
know
> if it worked on NT4 with NTFS because I never tried it, but it works
> beautifully on my laptop with W2K.
>
Yes it works.
I had :
hda1 : /boot
hda2 : nt4 ntfs
hda3 : win98 ft32
hda4 EXT
hda1 was active, with lilo in it, and I could boot hda2 or 3, or linux as
needed.
I wiped out the nt4, put in a fat16 partition there and installed win2k.
Then got win2k to convert it to ntfs .
Then when I activated the hda1,
I could still boot win2k by choosing NT4 ( That was the label for hda2 )
The OS or file system in a partition is not necessary for lilo.Just the boot
block.
If the partition type can be booted by the PS's BIOS, then lilo can boot it
as well.
PS : I left my mbr the way it was, and installed lilo into the boot block of
/hda1.
Redhat's installer asked where I wanted lilo ( in mbr or in the boot
block of hda1 ), so I chose hda1
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Athlon MB, disk (Was: Building a speedboat...)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:34:06 -0400
GIGABYTE GA-7IX E is the one with 2 isa slots .
700 mhz amd Slot A processor ( A0700MPR24B A )
:)
Linux works on this, which is more than I can say for windows.been rebooting
and installing ad nauseum for 3 hrs. And it's almost there.
Had to nearly use a hammer when it kept saying that my isa ne2000 card was
not working( I got into linux, and through my gateway, went to the microsoft
site. I was connected with the very same card the windows said didn't @#!*
work.)
The board has an ata66 controller and the ata66 cable comes with it.
I plugged in my old 8 and 6 gig drives using normal hdd cables. they work.
If you don't go to ata66, then you are fine with old cables and/or old hdd.
If you _do_ run with ata 66, use the ata66 cable .
And ata66 is enabled only if you plug in a hdd that can use it.
There doesn't seem to be a way to change the transfer rates in the bios.
cheers
Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jerry McBride wrote:
> > I'd like to use AMD's k7 on any reliable motherboard that sports at
least 2
> > ISA card slots. My choices are narrowed down to:
> >
> > - BIOSTAR M7MKA
> > - MICROSTART MS6167
>
> I'm running Red Hat 6.2 on a GA7IX. No problems, installed right away.
> Have Elsa Erazor III (32 MB) AGP video card.
>
> > Also... can someone clear up an old, confused mind? If a plain old IDE
> > harddrive is plugged into one of the newer UDMA33 or UDMA66
controllers...
> > will it still work correctly? Performance is not an issue, I just need
to
> > know if I'll be able to access the old iron on the new silicon.
>
> In having some problems getting a modem at IRQ 5 to work, I substituted
> the 530MB disk from our old 486 system for my WD-102BA (it has Win 3.1
> with modem set for IRQ5) and it ran just fine. (Win 3.1 was noticably
> faster that with the 486! :-) )
>
> Craig
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer)
Subject: Re: DNS problem(I think)
Date: 30 Jun 2000 16:41:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <newscache$oo4xwf$1lf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joris Maes wrote:
>the sites from my ISP, I mean that I can browse the sites from the domain,
>freegates.be (actually they changed it to Tiscally), but any other sites are
>unavailable. I can't even ping them, but I can perform an nslookup, and get
>some IP's, but I can't ping them, I keep getting "Network unreachable".
It seems your routing table is not set up right.
>#the script to create ippp0
Don't you have a gateway ?
>MYUSER=jorismaes # mijn username bij ISP
>REMNAME=freegates # naam van ISP's systeem
>MYIP=0.0.0.0 # mijn vast IP nummer (gebruik 10.0.0.2 als je geen vast
>IP hebt)M
>REMIP=212.35.2.1 # IP nummer van ISP (deze is bijna altijd wel vast)
>MYMSN=93550538 # mijn nummer, zonder 0, met netnummer
>REMMSN=092700420 # nummer van ISP
>REMMSN2=034000420 # als de andere in gesprek is...
>
>/sbin/isdnctrl verbose 3 # was waarschijnlijk al
>/sbin/isdnctrl system on # idem; maar voor de zekerheid...
>/sbin/isdnctrl addif ippp0 # eerste moet altijd ippp0 zijn
>/sbin/isdnctrl eaz ippp0 $MYMSN
>/sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out $REMMSN2 # laatste ingevuld wordt
>/sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out $REMMSN # als eerste gebeld!!
>/sbin/isdnctrl huptimeout ippp0 90 # na 90 sec geen verkeer: ophangen
>/sbin/isdnctrl l2_prot ippp0 hdlc # default, mag weggelaten worden
>/sbin/isdnctrl l3_prot ippp0 trans # ook default
>/sbin/isdnctrl encap ippp0 syncppp # we want syncPPP, dammit!
>#/sbin/isdnctrl status ippp0 on # indien gebruik gemaakt wordt van HiSax
>3.0
>/sbin/isdnctrl dialmode ippp0 manual # als 2.0.36 gebruikt wordt (of CVS
>versie)
>/sbin/ifconfig ippp0 $MYIP pointopoint $REMIP
>/sbin/route add $REMIP ippp0 # $REMIP is via ippp0 te bereiken
>/sbin/route add default netmask 0 ippp0 # alle non-lokaal verkeer gaat
^^^^^^^^^^^^
hmmmm there should be the gateway somewhere.
Check the man pages and the documentation ( I don't know it without looking
it up, too :-)
Andreas
--
Andreas Schweitzer
http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/
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From: Homer Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dd of DOS MBR wanted (to boot dos on hdb)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:52:53 GMT
> >Right now, if I point lilo to hdb1 or minix monitor to hdb6 (=hdb1),
> >I get "invalid system disk". Inserting a dos boot floppy works ok
> >and I can switch to the C: filesystem just fine. I want to do this
> >front the bootloaders however.
>
> Is C: a FAT16 or a FAT32 partition?
It's FAT16. I think now, however, that this is an ill-conceived idea
all together. I should have been more clear about why I though the
DOS MBR was fried, my only evidence being the inability to boot DOS
on hdb1 and knowledge that I had been fiddling with the MBR in the
past. However, I think now that the DOS MBR is intact, but either:
-DOS MBR is _incapable_ of booting an OS on hdb
-DOS MBR can boot hdb, but as written it points to hda
I did not specify that I wanted an MBR that pointed to hdb1, which
I should have done. Also, overwriting the entire boot sector, as
was pointed out, overwrites the partition map. One could overwrite
the portion of the MBR _before_ the map, however. But, I'm guessing
now that the DOS MBR simply can not boot hdb (without a third-party
utility). Anyone disagree?
Could I install a LILO MBR on hdb that'll point to hdb1 and so
boot DOS?
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nathan wagner)
Subject: Re: DNS problem(I think)
Date: 30 Jun 2000 16:11:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:44:07 +0200,
Joris Maes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I connect to the internet (ISP=freegates, Belgium), I can see all
>the sites from my ISP, I mean that I can browse the sites from the domain,
>freegates.be (actually they changed it to Tiscally), but any other sites are
>unavailable. I can't even ping them, but I can perform an nslookup, and get
>some IP's, but I can't ping them, I keep getting "Network unreachable".
"Network unreachable" implies a problem with the networking. DNS lookups
don't have anything to do with that, they are just a way to figure out the
network address given a domain name.
My guess is that you don't have a default route set.
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