[SC.LUG] Internet PARANOIA - Was Modem troub

[Richard Pineger]

Hi Ian,

you were correct but the method was lacking ;-) thanks for your help.

I'm using Kppp to configure my Internet connection. For some reason, when I
originally set up my service provider for user 'richard', on the DNS tab,
'Automatic' wasn't selected. When I did it for 'root' automatic DNS was
selected. Hence, root worked, Richard didn't (nothing new there :-).

Now I happily have both working.

The next question is: How do I keep my machine secure against attack? Are
there any basic settings that I should do immediately? I'm ever so paranoid
using the Internet at the moment given the recent spate of virii. Am I ok
just to use it. I know that, in some configuration file somewhere I have the
setting PARANOID but I'm blowed if I can find it again. I think it should be
changed to ALL. Does that mean anything to you?

Rich


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Molton
To: sc@mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: 01/09/03 19:07
Subject: Re: [SC.LUG] New to list: Introduction and Questions: Modem troub

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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