Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:18:20 -0700 From: Howard Lin <howard.lin@commerceone.com> To: "'darryl@osborne-ind.com'" <darryl@osborne-ind.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DNS & PPP Question Message-ID: <F289FD995459D311BBCF00A0C9E91ABF2A96EA@ip5-13.5.20.172.in-addr.arpa>
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I have seen the same problem on my Win95 and NT 4.0 boxes by themselves when my ISP upgraded as well. So, I don't think this is a FreeBSD problem. I think I got rid of it by upgrading my 56k modem (ZOOM External) to the newest BIOS. Make sure your ISP has the latest 56k standard (v.90 or somthing like that). If you can, you might want to try your modem on a Windows machine, and see if you get the same thing (make sure you dial the same ISP number though). Good luck, Howard -----Original Message----- From: Darryl Hoar [mailto:darryl@osborne-ind.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:52 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS & PPP Question Greetings, we have a 3.2 box. We use it as a gateway to the internet. It is used to automatically dialup the link, and also to do IP aliasing. We are using the userland PPP. We have been having some problems since our ISP put in 56K modems. The behavior is: after using the internet from win9x boxes for a variable amount of time, the link seems to hang. IE, ping from the win9x box yields "request timed out". Log into the Freebsd box, ping the ip address of the ISP' DNS server, and it hangs with no response. BTW, If I try to telnet to the Freebsd, it never yields the login prompt. After a while (never the same amount of time), it 'comes back' and starts working. I have seen this on my 2.2.6 box with a different modem. Should the domain name of the Freebsd box be the same as the ISP's domain ? The ISP claims everything is AOK. The ppp log looks unremarkable. I'm not sure what to do next. Ideas ? Darryl Hoar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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