Re: Simple DNS/ppp
To test DNS, instead of ping the domain name, try to ping its ip address. If
you fail in pinging ip address also, There must be something worng with pon.
Daniel
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From: Gavin Rogers <archiver@db.geocrawler.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 8:44 AM
Subject: Simple DNS/ppp
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>I'm very new to Linux, and I have been trying to
>do a slink install via ftp. Currently I have
>installed the slink kernel.
>When I go to connect useing pon, it connects
>alright and everything. I'm using PAP. After
>authentication and getting assigned an IP, I try
>to ftp ftp://ftp.debian.org. After a long try, I
>get a host name lookup failure. This happens with
>all servers I try to connect to. When I ping, I
>get 100% loss. I suspect somthing's wrong with
>DNS, but to my knowledge my nameserver IP's are
>fine.
>
>Gavin Rogers
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