Re: Newbie problem - can't reach an ftp site

[olet@ifi.uio.no (Ole J. Tetlie)]

*-Tom Perkins <wu.perkins@cwix.com>
|
| I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP
| correctly.  I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach
| any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org).  The error message I receive is
| 'Unable to locate host'.  I know the site exists because I can reach it via
| ftp from another UNIX machine.  Is there some setting I must tweak?

Find the IP address of your ISPs nameserver and put a line like

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

in /etc/resolv.conf (with the x'es replaced by the IP address).

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