On Saturday 27 December 2003 03:09 pm, tyche wrote:
On Friday 26 December 2003 15:06, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
tyche wrote:
i have 2 computers, one i have just rebuilt.
not liking what rh has done in 8, i compile kde from source.
i did things in the following order:
qt, arts, libs, base, network, then the rest in no particular order.
to get rid of redhat's x scripts, i installed xfree 4.3.0 from www.xfree.org.
until i installed the rest of kde, my dialup worked fine. now that i have compilled the rest of kde, my dialup connects, but i cant go anywhere or download mail.
was wondering what was happening here?
any help would be appreciated.
You probably don't have the DNS configured correctly.
If your ISP supports automatic (I think -- that is what I have and it works) you can check: "Automatic" in the: "DNS" tab in the KPPP set up widget. Otherwise, you need to check: "Manual" and enter two NUMERICAL DNS addresses for you ISP.
If you are using automatic, your: "/etc/resolv.conf" file should probably be empty -- KPPP will add stuff to the file when it is running.
i'll give it a try. when i looked, the nameserver was set to the other comp on the home network (192.168.0.1) not to my comp like it should be under my usual install of redhat.
i'll leave it blank next time i get the phone line.
thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
tyche
leaving it blank, ppp writes 2 addresses of nameservers, 209.151.129.1 and 209.151.1.142. ping either with the addresses results in getting pings back.
pinging the mail server, mail.ica.net, results in 100% packet loss, tho pinging mail.ica.net by its ip, results in return pings.
appearently, there is something that is blocking the ppp0 interface for name resolution.
Does your ISP also have protocol specific mail URLs.
E.G, Earthlink has: "pop.earthlink.net" for incoming and "smpt.earthlink.net" for outgoing.
If so, try those.
Or, try starting KPPP form a Konsole and see if you get any errors.
-- JRT
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