Re: ppp problems continue! (long)

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

>> "CE" == Chris Evans <C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk> writes:

CE> Route gives me:
CE> Kernel IP routing table
CE> Destination ... rest of headings ...
CE> but nothing beneath and I have to ^c out of it

CE> Netstat -rn gives me:
CE> Kernel IP routing table
CE> Destination     Gateway ...
CE> xxx.yy.zzz.1   0.0.0.0    255.255.255.255  UH 1524 0   0 ppp0
CE> aaa. bb.ccc.0  0.0.0.0    255.255.255.0      U  1500 0   0  eth0
CE> 127.0.0.0        0.0.0.0     255.0.0.0            U  3584 0    0  lo
CE> 0.0.0.0            xxx.yy.zzz.1   0.0.0.0   UG 1524 0   0 ppp0

This means that you didn't specify DNS servers.

Check /etc/resolv.conf for a "nameserver a.b.c.d" line. Your
/etc/host.conf should be

order hosts, bind
multi on

Ciao,
	Martin