On Thu, Jason wrote: > Or it could be firewall related. I set up Rays kppp dialup and iptables firewall without checking the /etc/sysconfig/firewall script. Sorry about that.
The firewall can be disabled from within KDE under "Settings-Security" in the menu if I recall correctly. It will ask you to enter the root password before you make the changes. Can you try this yourself Ray? Bjorn Nilsen wrote: > Hi Ray, > try to ping an IP address eg: "ping 202.50.167.4". > If this works you probably need to set your DNS > servers manually, this is done in the /etc/resolv.conf file. I think Ray is using kppp which temporarily inserts its own dns settings into /etc/resolv.conf and comments out any dns entries that are already in that file. When kppp is stopped it removes its entries and returns the file to normal. If kppp is being used to dial up paradise the dns ip numbers (for paradise) should be checked in kppp. As far as I know they are correct as Ray had a print out of the paradise numbers that was referred to. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Raycl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This brings me to my next question ,Someone at the install said > > you could load my e-mail manually,If you could that would be great. That would be "fetchmail", a mail retrieval agent (mta) that can fetch mail from pop3.paradise.net.nz. See 'man fetchmail'. It is probably not set up yet. 'mozilla' downloads mail from pop3.paradise.net.nz with its own internal mta so you are more or less loading your e-mail manually now. The advantage of 'fetchmail' is that it can run either manually or automatically in the background to poll pop3.paradise.net.nz every few miniutes. > > I tried To connect to my isp and was successful on the second attempt > > (for some reason the modem isn't activated on the first try),but when > > I try to connect to any of the sites I get a error message saying It > > is an unknown host. Sorry about the mistake with the firewall, try disabling it from within KDE. The firewall configuration/set-up is in the KDE-Settings menu under "Security" I think. sincerely, Keith.
