[SC.LUG] New to list: Introduction and Questions: Modem troub

[Ian Molton]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:13:03 +0100
Richard Pineger <richard.pineger@kudos-idd.com> wrote:

> I connect OK but can't get any pages off the Internet. I suspect it
> is because I am not root user.

my guess is that you havent set up any nameservers.

can you ping www.<something>.com ?

if not, can you ping an IP like 194.106.34.179?

if you cant ping a name but can ping an IP then you need to add some
lines like (in /etc/resolv.conf)

nameserver ip.of.your.isps_nameserver
nameserver 1.2.3.4  (alt dns)

its possible pppd created the file for you in /etc/ppp/ and if it did,
something like ln -s /etc/ppp/<name of file> /etc/resolv.conf


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