Re: PPP connection can't find servers

["Jake Hoban" <jake_hoban@hotmail.com>]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I've already got it working. John Hasler
pointed out that I had a default gateway set up when I didn't need one. I
removed it and bingo.

Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <jim.elliott@virgin.net>
To: "Debian Users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Cc: "Jake Hoban" <jake_hoban@hotmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: PPP connection can't find servers


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>
> Jake Hoban wrote:
>
> > Apologies if this has been posted before - I've only just subscribed.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm in the process of a new debian installation via floppies and ppp.
I've
> > got to the point where it dials my ISP to get to the FTP server, but it
> > never connects to it and after a while the modem hangs up.
> > I had this problem once on another machine, and the reason was no
> > entries in
> > /etc/resolv.conf. But both the nameservers are in there this time.
> > I've tried pinging the loopback IP address, which works. But I can't
ping
> > anything else, not even the name servers.
> >
> Are you sure pppd is running? Check  /var/log/messages to make sure.
> Assuming that your ISP uses dynamic IP addressing this should tell you
> the IP of the other end of the PPP link, you could try pinging that, and
> also check that if the DNS servers are listed they are the same as the
> ones you used in resolv.conf
>
> Jim
>
> Please cc me in on replies.
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>