John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > After I dial in to my ISP and establish a ppp connection, I can't do
> > anything. Trying to telnet gets the following message:
> >
> > host name lookup failure
> >
> > no matter what machine I try to dial into. Netscap gives me the following:
> >
> > unable to locate the server home.netscape.com. Can anyone shed some light
> > on this dilemna? I've been using Red Hat on another machine for the last
> > two years with no problems. Thanks.
> >
> >
> What do you have in your /etc/resolv.conf???
Just a small suggestion for Mandrake when they get ready to ship 6.2:
Install caching-nameserver by default. Start named by default. Put
/etc/resolv.conf into whatever package it goes into and set it up with a
simple "nameserver 127.0.0.1"
That ensures that when a new user gets that first PPP connection going,
they're ready to rock and roll.
It really would make things easier for everyone, at least default to
that for non-networked setups... us poor b*stards never even get to
configure our networking essentials during installation.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
