Having trouble getting ppp configured on my 6.1 box

Matteo Pillon matteo.pillon at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 11:37:42 PDT 2006


Hi Andrew.

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 11:51:40AM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> ppp works and all, but I can't resolve any DNS hostnames.  Everytime I try,
> I get something like "no address associated to the name."  Or something
> similar.  Sorry, I'm writing this mail from the Windows OS (one computer
> shares the two OS's) and I don't recall the error exactly but that's
> basically it.

First, verify you're really connected to internet, looking at ifconfig
if tun0 has an ip. Then look at the output of netstat -rn if there's a
default route, then try to ping a numeric address, like ping
151.1.1.1.

This will help you diagnose the problem. ;-)

Bye.

-- 
 * Pillon Matteo


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