Re: Need help about diald & dselect:
On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote:
> 2)I am trying to use dselect's FTP method without any success. I strted
> pppd first. The program and my modem seem working properly. I checked
> /var/log/ppp.log file and the message was like this:
> pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
> serila connection established.
> Using interface ppp0
> connect: ppp0 <---> /dev/ttyS0
> local IP address 202.73.253.153
> remote IP address 202.73.252.131
> I think above message looks OK. Then I started "dselect" access method
> "FTP". When dselect was loaded, I got a message "hostname: Host name
> lookup failure". Does this mean anything? I just ignored this message
> and filled in information for fip site, passive, and username etc then
> hit return. I got the following messages:
> Connecting to ftp.debian.org....
> NET::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405
> FTP ERROR
Just wondering, did you set up your /etc/resolb.conf file for the DNS
server of your ISP. That should solve your problems.
Shaya
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