Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 12:15:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <cagey@kevin.sunshine.net> To: Greg Evans <gevans@bing.televar.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help please... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970520120723.193B-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970520110745.6178A-100000@bing.televar.com>
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On Tue, 20 May 1997, Greg Evans wrote: >Please send all replies to gevans@televar.com as I am not a subscriber to >this list, just trying to help a friend out. > >Thanks. > > >I am atempting to help a user of the ISP that I work for get his FreeBSD >up and running. He is at the point where he uses the boot floppy and then >tries to use PPP to get the rest of the files for install (or install over >the 'net?) However that works, I am doing all of this by telephone, so I >am not sure of the specifics of freebsd. > >Anyway, we set everything up so that he can connect to us (The ISP) and >then when freebsd tries to go to ftp.freebsd.org, it gives the message >that it 'cannot resolve domain name for ftp.freebsd.org'. It sounds like he has something setup in the menu incorrectly. "IF" you are running dynamic ppp I found to get the most success from entering `0.0.0.0' in the set up of gateway and ip address. When he goes to his ppp screen and does the dial-in through term, enters his login name and passwd, it will go into packet mode. When `ppp ON' changes to `PPP ON' he will know he is connected correctly. > >We have the domain name server set up correctly as well as all the >information to get logged on to us. As I said I cannot see the screen as >I am doing this over the phone, but would appreciate any thoughs or >suggestions that anyone could give me. > > > > > _______________________________________ |\ /| | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | My manhood shouldn't be | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | measured by the length | /^\_________________________/^\ | of my run on sentences. | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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