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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:17:09 +0200
From:      jobse <jobse@tintin.kau.se>
To:        Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Message-ID:  <1087409829.3806.22.camel@h163n2fls22o18.bredband.comhem.se>
In-Reply-To: <40D0833C.8090609@elvandar.org>
References:  <1087402545.3828.28.camel@h163n2fls22o18.bredband.comhem.se> <40D0833C.8090609@elvandar.org>

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Hello!
Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use
mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps
a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow?

> 



ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder:
> Hey Jobse,
> 
> 
> jobse wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD
> > 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora.
> > Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt
> > with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to
> > any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide
> > support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw.
> > 
> > thanks
> > jobse
> 
> Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows.
> Did you turnon any dns servers?
> if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites.
> 
> How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser 
> pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP.
> 
> Do you use a Firewall?
> 
> etc
> 
> Hth,
> 
> > 
> 



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