Only guesses based on what you wrote, but perhaps I'll get lucky.
1. Can you successfully connect to sites using their IP addresses rather
than their hostnames? If you can, you have a DNS problem. Possibly the
nameserver entries you have are wrong - either the wrong addresses (check
with the ISP) or entered incorrectly into resolv.conf (each line should be
in the form "nameserver 192.168.23.42", with your ISP's nameserver address
replacing the dummy one here).
2. Is the ppp0 interface set up as the default route? Check this with
"route" or "route -n". If not, add this to the command-line call for pppd or
its options file (or whatever kppp does).
3. the ping test you report isn't definitive; I know that some ISPs have
their routers set to block pings - this happened a year or more ago when
pings were being used in denial-of-service attacks. Try traceroute instead.
4. Do your logs tell you anything helpful? (logs are usually
/var/log/messages and /var/log/debug, but the actual names are installation
specific, set up in syslog.conf .)
5. Could there be a problem at the ISP? If you can telnet to a shell account
at your ISP, see if you can ping, traceroute, telnet, etc. from it to the
same hosts that you cannot reach from your Linux host. If you can't, the ISP
is having a connectivity problem, not you. (This is a VERY remote
possibility, one I usually don't bother to mention. But it does happen -- it
has happened to me -- so you want to keep it at least at the back of your
mind when you do this sort of troubleshooting.)
6. When you try to access the net, are you running as root? It's not good
practice to do this routinely, but for troubleshooting, trying as root it a
quick way to spot a permissions problem.
At 04:13 PM 5/29/99 +0200, David Krings wrote:
>I just installed a fresh RedHat 5.1 version and added KDE1.1 from the net.
>Using kppp works fine and i get a ppp connection to my ISP. But i can't
>access the net with any program. Netscape tries to reach the url but it
>waits til i interrupt it after several minutes.
> Normally that happens if the DNS is not specified, but i specified it in
>the /etc/resolv.conf and added it also in the Kppp settings, it still
>doesn't work. The only computers i can ping is my own and the ISP.
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