Thanks Ray
You were on the mark with your info. I called my ISP and asked what I
would need to surf the web. He said that two (primary and secondary) IP
addresses he gave me (I added these to my /etc/resolv.conf) was all I
needed. That as much as he could help me with.
Question: In the "route add default ..." command you gave me, should I
replace the 1.2.3.4 with one of the 2 IP addresses the ISP gave me?
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 1:34 PM
To: Chris Job
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't surf the web
I've added linux-newbie back to this exchange; these queries really
belong
on the list, not private.
Once again, you don't give us much to work with, so all I really can do
is
guess. See if I have the next part right.
1. You send outgoing mail via SMTP to a smarthost relay run by your ISP.
2. You receive e-mail via POP3 or IMAP (probably using fetchmail on
Linux),
again from a host at your ISP.
3. Your DNS is also provided by your ISP, anf you have its nameservers
in
/etc/resolv.conf .
These three things share one common feature: they all require access
ONLY to
your ISP's internal network. Web access, however, requires you to be
able to
connect to sites outside your ISP's internal network. Based on that,
I'll
guess that you don't have your ISP's default route (gateway) in your
routing
table.
I assume the ISP gave you the IP address of its default gateway. (If
not, it
might be coming in as part of a dhcp lease.) Check your routing table
with
"route -n" and see if it is included. If not, add it with the line
route add default -gw 1.2.3.4 metric 1
replacing 1.2.3.4 with the actual IP address.
If I've guessed wrong ... sorry. Chris, I'm sure it seems tiresome to
have
to include your setup information every time you post, but please
consider
it from my (and probably Richard's) perspective. I reply to a lot of
questions (on this list and others), and all the setups blur in my mind.
If
you don't remind me of your specifics, I can't pick them out from the
dozen
or so other sets of specifics I've read in the past few days.
At 01:27 PM 1/25/00 -0500, Chris Job wrote:
>hanks guys!!
>I got my email working again!! If only I could figure out web I can
not
>surf the web I'll be okay.... When I enter a URL I comes back with the
>message: no response server could be down. Try later.
>Any idea on how I should proceed?
>
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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