newbie trouble - Internet connection

jobse jobse at tintin.kau.se
Wed Jun 16 12:25:01 PDT 2004


Hello Steve!
I am connected through Cabel. I don't have resolv.conf, thats for sure.
Pinging looked fine.

netstat -rn gave (briefly).
destination: Gateway:

default 213.64.3.1 vr0
213.64.3 ...
... ...
213.64.3.[myIP] 127.0.0.1 lo0

Thanks
<jobse






ons 2004-06-16 klockan 20.18 skrev Steve Bertrand: 
> > 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
> 
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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,
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
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