[ale] Some networking trouble...

[myo at lamers.net]

You need the address of the Domain Name Server in /etc/resolv.conf of the
connecting machine (if on a Linux or UNIX system). If you don't have it
there already, that's probably your problem.  It should look something
like: 

---
# /etc/resolv.conf

domain name.server.domain.name.com
nameserver 135.67.232.3		# (ns ip number)

# EOF
---

(of course, substitute your nameserver's info)

hope that works for ya...

         -- me


On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Peter Ekstrom wrote:

> Howdy y'all!
> 
> I'm trying to help a friend out with a, to me, strange network problem.
> 
> He has an internal network on a token ring and is trying to get ppp to work
> as well.  The token ring network is working just fine, but the ppp connection
> doesn't.
> When he's connected and tries to ping something on the outside, nothing happens.
> But, he can telnet to my machine but it takes a little while to give the login
> prompt.  Same thing happens when I telnet to his machine.
> 
> Telnet connects pretty quick and gives the escape sequence message, but then it
> waits for 30 seconds to a minute before it gives the login prompt.
> 
> His route table looks just like mine, which works.  I have an internal
> ethernet network...  He did have his gateway address setup for the outside on
> the internal token ring.  We changed that and rebooted but it didn't help.
> 
> Has anyone experienced a similar problem or could someone give me some clues
> as to what else to look at?  I'm clueless at this point...
> 
> Thanks in advance...
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> ! Name.: Peter Ekstrom           !   IBM AS/400 - Senior Programmer Analyst   !
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