newbie trouble - Internet connection

[jobse]

Hello!
Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use
mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps
a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow?

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ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder:
> Hey Jobse,
> 
> 
> jobse wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD
> > 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora.
> > Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt
> > with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to
> > any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide
> > support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw.
> > 
> > thanks
> > jobse
> 
> Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows.
> Did you turnon any dns servers?
> if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites.
> 
> How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser 
> pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP.
> 
> Do you use a Firewall?
> 
> etc
> 
> Hth,
> 
> > 
>