Thanks you listers (espically ADAM and RAY)!!
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 cmes back with the
message: no response server could be down. Try later.
Any idea on how I should proceed?
I'm using RH 5.2
Thanks
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Chris Job wrote about, RE: can't surf the web or get my email:
> > Ray, Adam,
> > Thanks for responding so quickly. I'm sorry for the lack of info (did
> > not know what would be required).
> > Below is a list out of the commands you sugested I run.
> >
> > 1. When I ping my ISP (by name) I get the following response: ping:
> > unknow host
>
> You do not have your nameservers defined in /etc/resolv.conf
> Check the documentations from your ISP, he should have given you at least 2
> nameserver IP addresses those go into /etc/resolv.conf makeing it look
> something like.
>
> goodnews.net
> nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx
> nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx
> search goodnews.net
>
>
> > 2. When I enter the command ifconfig -a. The response is below:
> >
> > lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> > UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> > RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0
> >
> > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> > inet addr:209.50.107.209 P-t-P:206.112.216.30
> > Mask:255.255.255.0
> > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0
> > Memory:63f5038-63f5c04
> >
> > 3. When I enter the command route -n, the response is:
> >
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> > Iface
> > 206.112.216.30 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
> > ppp0
> > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 3
> > lo
> > 0.0.0.0 206.112.216.30 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 3
> > ppp0
> >
> > ** My ISP's IP number is 206.112.216.10
>
> That all looks ok to me, you interface is up and running and you have a
> route to your ISP and a default route via that host, check your ISP's
> documemtation that that is the correct ip as well. It should be.
>
> >
> > Any idea what I should do next
> > Thanks for the help
> > Chris
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 2:19 PM
> > To: Chris Job
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: can't surf the web or get my email
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Chris Job wrote about, can't surf the web or get
> > my email:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I was having some trouble with my email and my system finally died on
> > > me. I had to re-install the linux software (Res Hat 5.2).
> >
> > There is nearly NEVER the need to reinstall inux, period.
> >
> > > I can successfully connect to my ISP but can not ping an IP, surf the
> > > web or get fetchmail to poll my ISP's mail server. I am hoping that
> > you
> >
> > You are not being very helpfull, if you mean you cant ping an IP with an
> > IP
> > number then you have many more problems that you think.
> >
> > It would seem that you dont have a defult route set VIA your isp, now if
> > you have a PPP connection the default route should be set when you
> > connect.
> >
> > Check with the route command, and/or route -ne.
> >
> > > can give me some suggestions as to what I can do to get things
> > > (espicially my email) working again.
> >
> > You give us more spesific information and possably we can help you more.
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help
> > > Chris
> > --
> > Regards Richard
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
>
