From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 7 09:56:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20878 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:56:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.eee.org (mail.eee.org [163.150.39.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA20869 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:56:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from larry_nilsen@eee.org) Received: from eee.org (jtuser40.eee.org [163.150.24.238]) by mail.eee.org (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA16835 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:56:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <364488DB.B5AF2196@eee.org> Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 09:52:28 -0800 From: larry_nilsen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: ping hostname Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I have FREEBSD 2.2.7 installed i would like to run ppp? Question this is what it looks like pppONcircle>term working in interactivemode Type ? for help [] this is all it gives me? i cant type nothing because my cursor is gone and all i see is a little white rectangle box just sitting there bottom left corner i cant even type ? to get anything. please what am i not doing to beable to dial my isp.if this helps this is another message i see circle# ping hostname ping: cannot resolve hostname: host name lookup failure. is there away to fix this problem and if so please" step by step how to instruction. P.S. can you send me quick working examples what im suppose to have in these three files.im not going to be a server i just want to dial my isp and connect to the internet. /etc/host.conf /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf thankyou To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message