newbie trouble - Internet connection

Steve Bertrand iaccounts at ibctech.ca
Wed Jun 16 11:19:17 PDT 2004


> 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?

I may have missed something, but how do you connect to your ISP? Dial-up
ppp, PPPoE (DSL), Cable etc?

Do you have a gateway device at your location? What is the output of the
following:

# ping 127.0.0.1
# ping localhost

What is the 'default' entry say when you do:

# netstat -rn

Next, what is the output of the following command?:

# cat /etc/resolv.conf

Regards,

Steve

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> ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder:
>> Hey Jobse,
>>
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>> 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,
>>
>> >
>>
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