Personally, if my ISP would not provide me with the information I need to set
up any OS or configuration I want to connect with, I'd get me another ISP! I
use a local provider, and they have given me good service, with very little
"down time" and like that. When I told them I was mucking about with Linux,
they even gave me the email of a user who is in a local user group to help me
get started. You can not get that kind of support with any national outfit.
Just my 2 cents worth,
Ernie
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,M Thompson wrote:
| I have BellAtlantic as our home ISP and they refused to give out their DNS
| servers, so I fired up an xterm session after conencting to the ISP and then
| simply typed "whois bellatlantic.net." It listed the IP addresses of
| BellAtlantic's DNS servers.
|
| HTH,
| Matt
|
|
| >From: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
| >Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:55:59 +0000
| >
| >Hi ,
| >
| >If the file doesn't exist, I have a question. Have you used linuxconfig to
| >set
| >up your ppp connection or kppp? Either one of these is supposed to create
| >the
| >file from what I've read. But- I'm a newbie to so I could be wrong. Look on
| >the
| >brightside though. I have an ISP that provides filtered internet access and
| >they
| >refuse to give me the IP addresses for the domain name servers.
| >
| >Question, I tried to manually configure the proxy settings in Netscape and
| >it
| >tells me the proxy is not recognized so it refuses to accept the entries.
| >Do I
| >have to enter the proxy somewhere else first? I wouldn't think so, The win
| >version accepted the entries with no problem.
| >
| >Aaron deRozario wrote:
| >
| > > Advice from a newbie - treat with caution ;-)
| > >
| > > If you don't have /etc/resolv.conf you can create it by firing up your
| > > favourite text editor (emacs, vi, kwrite) and simply saving an empty
| >file as
| > > /etc/resolve.conf. Of course since you need to edit the file with the
| > > appropriate information you may as well do that at the same time.
| > > resolve.conf I think follows the format (see if there's a man page for
| > > resolve.conf it will have the exact format)
| > >
| > > nameserver (eg ozemail.com.au)
| > > DNS IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
| > > DNS2 IP address (if there is two nameservers)
| > >
| > > If you use kppp then it will take care of editing /etc/resolve.conf for
| >you.
| > > I think if you use kppp resolve.conf needs to be writeable by those
| >users
| > > that will have ppp access. chmod 666 should do it
| > >
| > > Read the ppp how-to's if what I said doesn't work, or check the archives
| >-
| > > DNS problems come up very regularly on the list. I think the Kppp help
| > > files also have useful information.
| > >
| > > Aaron
| > >
| > > > -----Original Message-----
| > > > From: Mark & Nina Drake [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:10 AM
| > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
| > > >
| > > > Okay, tried to go to /etc/resolv.conf. It does not exist!! Can I build
| > > > this
| > > > file and insert it into the etc directory? If so, where can I get info
| >on
| > > > how to do this? Thanks!!
| > > >
| > > > -----Original Message-----
| > > > From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > > > Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 04:02 PM
| > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connectivity
| > > >
| > > >
| > > > >On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote:
| > > > >>
| > > > >> Okay, I have set up my internet connection using netcfg. I get a
| > > > dialing sound and my computer goes through the motions of connecting
| >to my
| > > > ISP. They seem to connect because I can see the the send and receive
| > > > indicators blinking on my external modem. When I try to run Netscape I
| >get
| > > > a
| > > > server error and it also tells me that there is a problem with the
| >name
| > > > server, and that I need to set the $SOCKS_NS variable to point to the
| > > > server. Also, when I ping my network it says "network unreachable".
| >Have I
| > > > missed some easy connection to get it all running? Any help would be
| > > > greatly
| > > > appreciated.
| > > > >>
| > > > >>
| > > > >
| > > > >----------------------------------------
| > > > >Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed"
| > > > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
| > > > >Content-Description:
| > > > >----------------------------------------
| > > > >First, ditch the HTML. It's not appreciated in this list.
| > > > >Second, open up a root console window and go to /etc/ and
| > > > >edit your /etc/resolv.conf so that it has your ISP's DNS
| > > > >servers. It should look something like this:
| > > > >search chattanooga.net
| > > > >nameserver 209.54.120.2
| > > > >nameserver 209.54.120.3
| > > > >
| > > > >The "chattanooga.net" would be replaced with your ISP,
| > > > >"leading.net" Second, you'd replace the above numbers with
| > > > >the IP addresses of your ISP, leading.net. To find out that
| > > > >information, call your ISP and ask what their DNS numbers
| > > > >are and plug 'em in above in place of MY dns numbers.
| > > > >I won't put something together for you to just copy and paste,
| > > > >because I firmly believe that you learn by doing. I gave
| > > > >you the example from my system, so you know the way it
| > > > >should look.
| > > > > John
| > > > >
| >
|
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