----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 8:27
AM
Subject: [newbie] Internet
Problems
Hi!
I recently set up a network and fooled around
with my networking config files
and now DNS lookups don't appear to
work :(, which explains why I have been
recently using Outlook Express
to send emails...
Basically, I can connect to the Internet with
no problems but once I'm
online, I can't do a thing.
If I type ping www.<any website>.com, this message pops
up on my screen:
YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound
And ping just sits there waiting forever.
If I run Konqueror or Netscape and type in www.<any website>.com, they also
just
sit there forever and never load.
Before, I changed my config files, Internet
in Mandrake (I'm using 7.2)
worked fine. I have always used kppp
to connect to the Internet. I have
always been using the LT
WinModem 5.78D driver.
What is wrong? I want to use the
Internet in Linux, not Windows!
Perhaps, my config files have something to do
with this, so here they are :)
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/etc/hosts: (btw,
I have named my computer "tux350" and the
other one
on the network, "cups166", in my pretend domain
"reisersun")
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127.0.0.1
localhost.localdomain
localhost
192.168.1.1
tux350.reisersun
tux350
192.168.1.2
cups166.reisersun cups166
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/etc/HOSTNAME (note:
this file did not exist before I made
it!):
-------------------------------------------------
tux350
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/etc/host.conf:
----------
order hosts, nis,
bind
multi on
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/etc/resolv.conf
(note: I use an isp called Bigpond, which has
everything
- ip addresses, that is - starting with
139)
----------------------------------------------------------
#
search reisersun
# search localdomain
search
localdomain
# nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver
139.134.5.51
nameserver 139.134.2.190
# ppp temp
entry
nameserver 139.134.5.51 # ppp temp entry
nameserver
139.134.2.190 # ppp temp entry
nameserver 139.134.5.51 # ppp temp
entry
nameserver 139.134.2.190 # ppp temp entry
------------ END CONFIG FILES
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I can't remember the numerous other config
files that I changed so please
tell me if you need any others to help
diagnose my problem.
Before I changed anything, my computer used
to be called the default
"localhost.localdomain".
Please help me fix my config files so that I
can use my Internet connection
again in Linux!
Thanks,
George
