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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 2006 20:39:16 +0200
From:      Matteo Pillon <matteo.pillon@gmail.com>
To:        Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Having trouble getting ppp configured on my 6.1 box
Message-ID:  <20060903183915.GA24744@neptune.octopus>
In-Reply-To: <340a29540609021051n50bc066bj63f192f9890f8e5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <340a29540609021051n50bc066bj63f192f9890f8e5@mail.gmail.com>

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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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