Hal,
Yes, I have tried the defaultroute option to pppd but it did NOT fix the
issue. I happened to had seen a posting on Usenet where it talked about
deleting the default route (which is set to my private interface's IP)
before running pppd, and I did that THEN I was able to ping "things" outside
of my machine, and when I did connect with pppd it made my ppp0's IP (as
given dynamically by ISP) the default route. However, now for some reason
(or maybe it is ALL related), IP Masquerading is NOT working - arrgh!!!! As
a matter of fact, in trying to see why it is that I had to do a delete of
the default route (NEVER had to before), it looks like I have screwed things
up worse being that even though I can ping a hostname outside of my machine,
the different clients CANNOT resolve the names they are trying to use; for
example, XChat and Netscape cannot connect to the servers, yet, nslookup
<server> finds the hostnames without problems using my ISP as the name
server.
Here is my resolv.conf file:
domain bellsouth.net
nameserver 205.152.16.20
nameserver 205.152.0.5
Is there anything wrong with this (IT is what I used to have before 6.1)?
Is it possibly the nsswitch.conf file? Any help by anyone would be
appreciated! Thanks!
Rafael
----- Original Message -----
From: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 and PPP
> On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Rafael Munoz wrote:
> > 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:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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.
>
> Have you tried the 'defaultroute' option for pppd?
>
> PS - </HTML>
>
> --
> Hal B
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