[sclug] TCP/IP I think

[Simon Huggins]

'ello tim

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:15:47PM +0300, tim wrote:
> No I can't resolve ip addresses ping just hangs for a while and comes
> back with unknown host

And the other questions?

> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 04:30:40PM +0300, tim wrote:
> > I am having another go at moving over completely to Linux, ( I have
> > tried several times, with varying success, but there is always some
> > software I need/ use that is only on windows mainly Dreamweaver.) I am
> > hoping that I can get Wine working. But the main problem I have at the
> > moment is that although I can dial up to the ISP, none of the
> > applications, Mail, browsers, etc seem to know that I have connected.
> > I have done ifconfig and have an ip address, but seem to have no
> > connection to the application layer. I have also tried putting in the
> > DNS ip addresses rather than allowing it to look dynamicaly and that
> > does not seem to work.

> Can you ping the IP of the remote end of the PPP connection? (should be
> ~200ms if I remember back to my dialup days).  You'll find this in your
> logs - it's in /var/log/syslog normally so try grep remote
> /var/log/syslog once you've dialled up.

> Can you ping IP addresses randomly on the Internet such as
> 193.201.200.46 ?

> Can you resolve addresses?  e.g. host www.google.com

> It could be all sorts of things really but answering those questions may
> help us work out what's wrong.

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Simon.

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