According to Bwalkup: While burning my CPU.
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> Hello,
>
> I'm having trouble getting netscape to connect to the net when I get a
> ppp connection working. I can get minicom to start receiving the ppp
> garbage when you get a ppp connection going. (I'm using some program
> that automaticaly creats scripts to connect to compuserve (yes i know
> bad choice for an isp)) Well anyway It'll at least connect to compuserve
> and get me logged on allright and then i'll go into minicom and start
> the ppp session with it and it'll start sending the garbage. So then I
> go into xwindows and start up netscape (redhat 5.1's netscape version).
> But then it will complain about not being about to find the dns or
> something that i typed in... like www.yahoo.com... and then another
> warning saying it cant resolve things in resolve.conf or something like
> that..and sites like home.netscape.com and pages like that in the
> settings. And for some reason it also listed my local hostname in it.
>
> I guess I'm just asking is if I have the ppp connection with compuserve
> going why cant netscape know that it's their and start working? Or do I
> have to change some settings?
You dont have your routes setup properly, nor it would seem have
/etc/resolv.conf set up properly.
example /etc/resolv.conf
search <your_domain>
nameserver <IP#> where IP# is your isp's number or dns IP#.
Then add a default route via compuserve.
>
> Sincerly,
>
> Scott
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>
>
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Regards Richard.
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