Re: [TCLUG:9073] resolving DNS on RH6

[Mike Nielsen <mnielsen@iastate.edu>]

I always thought att.worldnet used a modified TCP/IP stack.

I didn't even know you could attempt to use it with Linux

Let me know if you ever get this to work


On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Hi, all -
> 
> Having problem with worldnet dial-up.  any help would be appreciated.
> 
> I am using KPPP on RH6.0 to dial into att worldnet. The dial-up connection
> works and I was able to ping and traceroute worldnet (204.127.160.1).
> However, I was not able to access the tclug, redhat or any other website.
> Netscape responded back that "can not access www.redhat.com".  Seems like
> www.redhat.com was not resolved into IP address.
> 
> I configured the following files to dial-up.
> 
> /etc/ppp/chap-secret
> /etc/option
> /usr/resolv.conf
> 
> seems like kppp generates a resolve.conf file under root automatically also.
> 
> It's been strange since I had the same setup using kppp and rh6.0 before my
> hard drive crashed.  It WAS working! I tried for a whole day after
> re-install and it just won't work.
> 
> 
> More info :  I did not setup an individual local host name and the HOSTNAME
> file has a default of "localhost.localdomain".
> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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