Den 19 Nov 99, kl. 12:24, skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> At 01:47 PM 11/19/1999 +0100, you wrote:
> >Sometime ago he reinstalled Windows, and now he cannot make his
> >Internet-applications work. The modem is connecting and establishing a
> >connection, but he gets the following message from Netscape:
> >
> >"Netscape was unable to create a network socket connection. There may
> >be insufficient system resources or the network may be down."
(snip)
> It matters that you have the right bindings and protocols on the right
> adapter. You need to ensure that your DHCP and DNS settings are all
> correct also. You haven't told us the method of internet access, relative
> success with other clients (mail, other browsers, irc, icq, etc)
> either. First call your isp, it's their job and their department to fix
> these problems.
Apparently all his Windows-clients are failing, including the mother of all
graphical browsers, Mosaic. He has two ISP's (dial-up PPP) and neither
one works. I've told him to check his settings - protocols, bindings and so
on but I haven't heard from him yet, so I don't know if he had had any
success. He screwed it up himself by using Win98, so I don't really think it
is his ISP's job to fix this mess...
Stupid question: what is DHCP?
Re DNS: I made an experiment myself regarding the DNS-settings. I
changed them (in Windows 95) to something random, but everything was
working as usual anyway! I guess Win95 first tries to configure DNS-
addresses automatically (it should normally obtain the addresses directly
from the server) and only if this fails, falls back to the manually entered
addresses. Therefore it really doesn't matter what values you enter here,
as long as the automatic configuration works.
How come this doesn't work in DOS (Arachne, Bobcat et.al.)? Is it very
difficult to implement, or is it just a feature lacking in DOSPPPD? What
about Linux? Does it auto-configure DNS-addresses?
The client-stock of one of my ISPs was recently sold to another ISP, Spray
(http://www.spray.se), claiming to have around one million Swedes as
users, making it one of the largest ISPs in this country. My account was to
be transferred as well to Spray. I looked in vain in the documents I had
received for a DNS-address to enter in Arachne. They hadn't supplied
any, so I called their support. The young lady who answered didn't seem to
have a clue about what a DNS-address was. I decided not to activate my
Spray-account... Turned out the old account was still working, and still is.
And my old ISP did inform me about their DNS-address in the documents
I received.
I have two other ISPs as well, Utfors and Tele2. The former supplied DNS-
adresses in the printed info I received. The latter, which is perhaps the
largest ISP in Sweden, did not. It seems to me that the larger the ISP, the
less they know about configuration issues. Instead they supply pre-
configured CD-ROMs with M$IE. The big ISPs are for the John Does,
whereas people who would like to try non-mainstream products like Lynx,
Arachne or Linux and perhaps try to connect to the Internet with a
computer which is older than a year and a half had better stick to smaller
ISPs.
BTW, are there any ISPs offering so called shell accounts in other parts of
the world?
Lars-Einar Jansson
Stockholm, Sweden
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