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Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Do I understand you correctly? You can ping hosts that are on the actual LAN
> you dial into, but you cannot ping hosts that are off it? This may simply be
> restrictions on the use of ping set up by the LAN you dial into. For
> security reasons, some ISPs have chosen to block ping packets. (Or did you
> mean that you have this problem as an ordinary user but not as root? That's
> considerably more puzzling.)
>
> As to Netscape ... are you able to connect to a site by using its IP address
> instead of its name? If so, then you do have a DNS problem. Check the
> contents of /etc/resolv.conf to make sure your nameservers are all listed
> there, and make sure /etc/hosts.conf reads:
>
> order hosts, bind
> multi on
>
> Or are you running named on your own Linux host? If so, which version --
> things changed a lot between (I think) versions 4.9 and 8.2 of BIND, and
> advice for one is nonsense for the other.
>
> You'll also want to check if a permissions problem on some app is causing
> your ordinary-user ppp connection to be unreliable. To check this, look at
> the output of "ifconfig" and "route -n" when the ppp connection is up. The
> man pages can help you interpret the results.
>
> At 03:22 PM 3/3/99 -0500, Mandy Williams wrote [abridged]:
> >here is the problem. When i use a normal user i can dial using kppp and even
> >get connected so i think. But it seems that my DNS does not work.....or so I
> >think that is what it is with very little experience talking. I can ping
> >things i know are connected to my dialup network, but i cannot ping off of my
> >network and i cannot get to any sites on netscape. What is the deal here??
>
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