Re: PPP wont work!!!!! please help!
>> "D" == Dylan <supa.phly@mindspring.com> writes:
D> i ran pppconfig, and wvdial config when i installed... when i do 'pon'
D> it dials, connects, and i stay connected, but i try to test the connection
D> by pinging several hosts, but it always says: 'yahoo.com: unknown host'.
Looks like a routing or name resolving problem.
After you are connected, run "route -n".
You should have a line like:
[...]
0.0.0.0 194.8.216.203 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 1 ppp0
The first 0.0.0.0 is important. It is the defaultroute all traffic,
which can't be routed by the other lines in the route -n output, goes
through.
If the line is missing, you need to add the defaultroute option to the
pppd options.
Maybe routing is OK, but you can't resolve names.
Can you do a ping 204.71.177.35 (this is www6.yahoo.com) ?
/etc/resolv.conf should read:
nameserver ip.of.your.DNSserver
/etc/host.conf:
order hosts, bind
multi on
Ciao,
Martin
PS: Your ! key is stuck. And you don't have to explicitly ask for
help in the subject line. That's why we are here.
<shameless plug>
If you have X running, you could give xisp a try. A very nice pppd
frontend with multiple ISP configuration and phonecost accounting.
Brought to you by your fearless and extremely good looking maintainer
into the slink distribution :-)
http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/xisp.html
</shameless plug>
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