Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:39:25 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Dick Griffin" <crg1@erols.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ppp connects the times out???? Message-ID: <199811112041.PAA10877@laker.net>
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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
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