Re: connecting to internet
I might have missed something earlier in this thread, but this really looks like
a DNS problem to me. Is the "nameserver" line right in /etc/resolv.conf?
Try specifying a known good IP address on the lynx command line:
$ lynx http://209.81.8.242/
That's the IP address my machine returned for www.debian.org. If you can
connect, then your problem is almost certainly DNS.
Marc
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>>> Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il> 12/20 2:38 PM >>>
> I am a newbie and have just installed Debian. I need to connect to a website
> to download an upgrade to xfree86. I put the url in my sources list, but when
> I try apt-update, the response I get is that the website doesn't exist. I have
> checked it and it exists. My ppp connection to my isp is working ok. but I
> can't get to the website. Lynx doesn't connect to anything although I have put
> a url in lynx.cfg. I have tried ncftp, but no hosts are recognized although I
> use them in with other distributions.
> Any recommendations? I am using Debian Gnu/linux that is publish by Oreilly.
> System is asus p5a mo-board, amd k6-2 400 cpu, 128 mb ram. debian shares a
> drive with win98.
> steve w
>
I would have tried to use /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/sources.list because your problem might be with the entries you put in /etc/apt/sources.list.
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