On Thursday 11 January 2001 08:30 pm, you wrote:
> On Thursday 11 January 2001 09:59 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > Another $.02, we're almost up to a dollar here, when I connect to
> > earthlink my user name in KPPP has to be
> > entered as ELN/denkar . If I tried just denkar it won't connect. For
> > mail login under user name it requires only
> > the denkar, go figure. So if you don't have the ELN/ in front of you
> > login name you might give that a go.
>
> OK, now a $1 even ;) I'm curious as to what/how earthlink differs
> from most ISP's For starters, here's an nslookup (below sig), pay
> particular attention to their DNS servers, ns*.EARTHLINK.net. I
> suspect the reason EL's such a contradictory hodgepodge is the same as
> AoL's mess, AoL/NutScrape-Enterprise Servers ;>> BTW, Carroll, EL
> support told me PAP, but neighbors using EL here, clued me that CHAP
> was needed to connect (and it is, here at least).
Oooops, I forgot to mention that I had to use CHAPS for authentication. You
have to select it after the OS install and in the KPPP setup, so I had
kinda,sorta, forgot that. Hope all this helps the original question get
answered.
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Dennis M.
Registered Linux user #180842
