From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 11 12:41:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00504 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00499 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-145.laker.net [208.0.233.45]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id PAA10877; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:41:11 -0500 Message-Id: <199811112041.PAA10877@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Dick Griffin" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:39:25 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ppp connects the times out???? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:45:22 -0500, Dick Griffin wrote: >I'm a newbie, and I think I've followed the >www.freebsd.og/handbook/handbook218#513 guidelines correctly, for >configuring ppp, > >it connects, and the connection has been verified by my ISP, who confirms >that the systems connect, and I get through the authentic ion procedure, >and then my system seems to just sit, and eventually, one or the other >times out, and the connection gets shut down. > >in short, I connect, login in, password, and the curser rolls down one >line, then nothing > >Even when I have X running, and Netscape active it tells me that it cannot >find any URL's because the 'DNS' is unavailable. > >What should I look at next? Add your ISPs nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf See man resolv.conf for details Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message