[NTLUG:Discuss] pppd questions

[bryn konti]

Everybody else has posted good ideas of things to
check.  I thought of one more thing (I think this is
distribution dependent)...check either or both:

/etc/host.conf
one of the lines should say:
order hosts, bind

and 

/etc/nsswitch.conf
the hosts line should be something like:
hosts:  files dns

These files are supposed to tell linux whether to use
the /etc/hosts file or DNS or both for name
resolution. I am not sure which one most linux
distributions use by default, but I do know that
nsswitch is the newest method.
Someone already mentioned /etc/resolv.conf
that should look something like:

domain YourDomain
search YourISPsDomain
nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
nameserver XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

I think that's it...hope that was helpful.


--- "Geremy L. Hamlett" <ghamlett at swbell.net> wrote:
> I recently set up my pppd using the Linux Journal's
> of Feb and March 
> (hopfully someone will recognize this and no what
> I'm talking about) and
> followed all the steps.  Everything worked fine
> during the set up.  At the 
> end of the article I could dial to my ISP, run a
> traceroute on any 
> paticular IP address, ping any site, but I could not
> access websites or 
> telnet. I would get something to the effect of name
> resolution.  I have 
> tried using the dns numbers, and w/out. Nothing
> seams to work.  It is 
> probably some little mistake I made, but I can't
> figure it out for the 
> life of me.  I get the same problem when I try to
> config. wvdial as well.
>   
> My system is a RH7.2 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -- 
> Geremy L. Hamlett
> 
> 
> 
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