Local net

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Joshua wrote:

>unreachable I can on windows which sucks
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
>vlok stone
>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 9:19 PM
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: Re: Local net
>
>
>sounds like dns 
>try to ping by ip, then by name
>
>--- Joshua <joshua at navyjosh.us> wrote:
>  
>
>>Joshua StationeryHello,
>>
>>I am trying to get local net dial up to work with
>>Mandrake Linux 9.1. I have
>>all the information correct as far as I know. i.e...
>>Phone account name
>>password etc. I can log on I have but it will not
>>load anything like I am
>>not even connected. Any suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Josh
>>
>>    
>>
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Josh,

I'm late to this discussion, but what Vlok suggested is to ascertain 
that you have a connection to the Internet by pinging an IP address, 
such as Google's 216.239.39.99 like this:

[user at dell root]$ ping -c 2 216.239.39.99
PING 216.239.39.99 (216.239.39.99) from 207.251.211.38 : 56(84) bytes of 
data.
64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=192 ms
64 bytes from 216.239.39.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=159 ms

--- 216.239.39.99 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 159.961/176.181/192.401/16.220 ms

Then try to ping by name like this:

ping -c 2 www.google.com

which returns the same result as the ping by IP on my system (the -c 2 
part of the command is to ping twice otherwise it keeps going).

Then, if the IP ping works but not the name ping it's a DNS problem. 
 This setting is precisely for the purpose of looking up names of 
Internet addresses (which beneath it all are really the IP numbers).

I don't know Mandrake, but look for /etc/resolve.conf which needs to 
contain exactly the lines below for LocalNet DNS lookup:

search localnet.com
nameserver 207.251.201.10
nameserver 207.251.201.11

Use gedit if you don't know emacs or vi(m), or use mc with the F4 key to 
enter edit mode and then F2 to save and F10 to exit.

Frank