Hard to be sure, but sounds like a DNS problem.
1. See if you can ping to a host that you know the IP *address* for, using
it to bypass name lookup. If you can, but you can't ping the same host by
name, then DNS is a good bet. (Oh, some ISPs block pings; if yours does, try
telnet or ftp or a Web connection by number.)
2. Make sure the ISP's DNS servers are in your /etc/resolv.conf file. Or, if
you run named yourself, make sure its list of root servers is up to date.
At 06:34 PM 1/23/99 PST, Tigger Cervantes wrote:
>HI!!
>I'm a real newbie and am having a bit of a problem with my PPP dial-up
>connection. I'm running redhat 5.2 and used linuxconf to setup a ppp
>connection to my ISP. When I run it I hook up, run ifconfig and see
>that it's running, but when I run Lynx it tells me that www.whatever.com
>is a badly formed address. I can't run ftp or mail because I get the
>same type of message. What's going on? I can't think of any reason it
>would do this. I set it up almost the exact same way on 5.0 no problem.
>Any ideas? If someone could point me in the right direction I would be
>forever grateful!!
>
>Thanks in Advance!
>Tigger
>
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