network configuration problem

[Frank J. Carmickle]

Hi Chuck.

Can you ping an ip?  I am guessing that you cannot.  I had trouble
figuring out how to get the routing to work with slackware 7.  I am using
it successfully now.  Not sure what   it was that was a problem.  But we
need to know weather or not the default gateway is correct from the
routing table.  To see this type route.  

As far as dns goes you would want something in your resolv.conf that looks
like this.

search octothorp.org
nameserver 63.224.68.1

I am just using this as an example because I believe speakup.octothorp.org
is currently in the shop...  Sorry Bill.  I am thinking that maybe it's a
ppp problem or maybe even a problem that bind isn't working?  Well let us
know more details.

HTH
Frank

 On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> 
> I am attempting to configure Slackware 7.1 for dialup connections to my ISP
> and am having an unexpected problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated -
> I have RTFM and have checked everything I can think of!
> 
> My dialup sequence owrks fine - I get connected to my ISP - the scripts
> "ppp-go" and "ppp-off" work okay, and in fact as root I can run "ppp-go -d"
> for demand dialing and that seems to work too. The problem is, I cannot seem
> to make use of the ISP's domain name servers. I have not yet created a user
> account, but as root I ought to be able to use ftp, but always get a long
> delay followed by "host name lookup failure" I never had that problem with
> my old Slackware 4.0 distribution and have compared the configuration files
> between the 7.1 and 4.0 versions - they seem identical, permissions and all.
> I must be overlooking something but cannot think what. Any of you Slackers
> with ideas, I would sure like to hear from you - off list if this is too far
> afield...
> 
> Chuck.
> 
> PS - this message comes to you courtesy of - nettamer and DOS! Yuck!
> 
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