RH 6.1 and PPP

[Rafael Munoz]

All,

 

Alrighty, I finally I was able to upgrade from RH 6.0 to 6.1 and I will explain how I did that on another posting to the list, but now I am having an issue with PPP.  In anycase, it seems like my problem has to do with DNS, although who knows what it can be.  I must say that I have had PPP working ever since 4.2 through 6.0 w/o issues, but now there are issues.  I did upgrade the kernel to 2.2.13 (same thing happened w/RH6.1's kernel 2.2.12-20).  The following is a capture of /var/log/messages:

 

Nov  6 09:48:47 zonum ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/ttyS0 at 115200
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.40
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: Initializing modem.
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: Sending: ATZ
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: ATZ
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: OK
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: OK
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: Modem initialized.
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: Sending: ATDT 3053738280
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: Waiting for carrier.
Nov  6 09:48:48 zonum WvDial: ATDT 3053738280
Nov  6 09:49:17 zonum WvDial: CONNECT 49333/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS
Nov  6 09:49:17 zonum WvDial: Carrier detected.  Waiting for prompt.
Nov  6 09:49:18 zonum WvDial: NAS08MIA line 30
Nov  6 09:49:18 zonum WvDial: User Access Verification
Nov  6 09:49:18 zonum WvDial: Username:
Nov  6 09:49:18 zonum WvDial: Looks like a login prompt.
Nov  6 09:49:18 zonum WvDial: Sending: zonum
Nov  6 09:49:18 zonum WvDial: zonum
Nov  6 09:49:18 zonum WvDial: Password:
Nov  6 09:49:18 zonum WvDial: Looks like a password prompt.
Nov  6 09:49:18 zonum WvDial: Sending: (password)
Nov  6 09:49:19 zonum WvDial: Entering PPP mode.
Nov  6 09:49:19 zonum WvDial: Async interface address is unnumbered (Ethernet0)
Nov  6 09:49:19 zonum WvDial: Your IP address is 209.214.1.183. MTU is 1500 bytes
Nov  6 09:49:19 zonum WvDial: Looks like a welcome message.
Nov  6 09:49:19 zonum pppd[789]: Serial connection established.
Nov  6 09:49:19 zonum pppd[789]: Using interface ppp0
Nov  6 09:49:19 zonum pppd[789]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Nov  6 09:49:20 zonum kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Nov  6 09:49:20 zonum kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Nov  6 09:49:20 zonum pppd[789]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [192.168.5.1]
Nov  6 09:49:20 zonum pppd[789]: local  IP address 209.214.1.183
Nov  6 09:49:20 zonum pppd[789]: remote IP address 209.215.205.9
Nov  6 09:49:20 zonum pppd[789]: primary   DNS address 205.152.16.20
Nov  6 09:49:20 zonum pppd[789]: secondary DNS address 205.152.0.5

 

 

As you can see IT looks like the connection is completed, however, I CANNOT ping my ISP (ping bellsouth.net).  However, I can certainly ping the remote IP above (209.215.205.9), but it certainly looks like I cannot use names.  So, what is the issue?  I do have an /etc/resolv.conf file which happened to be the one from RH 6.0 (where it did work).  There is also an /etc/nsswitch.conf file, and I do have a network card which works just fine since Samba working and my other computer sees the Samba share fine.  Also, 'nslookup bellsouth.net' nor 'nslookup <my hostname>' never comes back with anything.

 

So, if anyone can provide some insight into this issue, I would greatly appreciate it!  Thanks in advanced!

 

Rafael

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