Re: DNS Not Working *Again*
Thanks, Michael.
You were exactly right: the routing table was
incorrect. With great thanks to the folks at
#debian on irc.debian.org (in particular
"eye69,"sir99," and 'neil_") I learned that diald
configuration during the woody upgrade added some
unneeded entries to the routing table. Most
notably, there were entries for "tap0" that were
unwanted. I never did find out what "tap0" was
about, but I did get everything setup properly.
Thanks again to everyone involved.
peace,
John
--- "Michael P. Soulier"
<michael.soulier@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> If the connection is established but you
> can't ping anything, that
> suggests that your routing table isn't set up
> properly. See the defaultroute
> option in the pppd manpage, and make sure that
> it's an option to pppd, either
> in the script you're using, or in the
> /etc/ppp/options file.
>
> Confirm that your routing is set up
> properly using the route command.
>
> route -n or
> netstat -nr
>
> Mike
>
> On 09/03/02 John Shepherd did speaketh:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had a problem earlier this week in
> which
> > I could set up a PPP connection, but it
> wasn't
> > working properly. I fixed it by
> re-installing
> > debian and changing some answers to questions
> > during the configuration. I think the thing
> that
> > did it was that I had previously specified my
> own
> > local ip number as a gateway the firsttime
> and I
> > put no gateway the second time.
> > In addition to the DNS problem, I was
> > unable to get an Xserver to start. It was
> > suggested that I move from potato to woody.
> I
> > did that, and the X server starts now. But,
> > somewhere in that process my PPP connection
> got
> > messed up. I can dial and establish a PPP
> > connection, but I can't ping anything, not
> even
> > by ip number.....
> > I'm posting from another machine right
> > now, so i don't have examplesof anything to
> > include, but I'll try to copysome things
> tofloppy
> > so I can post them next time.
> >
> > Any suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
>
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