[ale] Linux ISP Dialing w/ MCI Worldcom

[Clay Lawrence]

Try these:

166.37.194.11
166.37.194.25

My port scanner shows them as active DNS ports on the net where your
mail originated.

Clay

Gene Matthews wrote:
> 
> I am pretty new to Linux and am trying to get set up to dial into my ISP
> (MCI Worldcom) with Linux.  Their tech support is relatively worthless (sad
> to say since I work for MCI Worldcom); all they say is they don't support
> it.  I saw a thread on their support news group (mciworld.users.support)
> where someone else asked for the DNS IPs and their reply was that they are
> assigned dynamically!  I am familiar, in concept at least, with DHCP, so I
> understand that client IPs are assigned dynamically, but if they are trying
> to say the DNS IP is assigned dynamically, I think they are all wet.  Has
> anyone successfully connected to them under Linux.  I have been unable to
> obtain a DNS server name/ip.
> 
> If not, who are the more Linux friendly ISPs in the metro Atlanta area.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gene
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Eric Z.
> Ayers
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 7:43 AM
> To: Scott Nolde
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Killing a route
> 
> Scott,
> 
> Sometimes, you need to specify almost the entire line sent to 'route
> add' in order to delete it.   It isn't this way on all operating systems.
> 
> # route add -net 10.70.161.0 gw 10.70.162.130 netmask 255.255.255.0
> # netstat -nr
> 
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
> Iface
> 170.11.1.1      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0
> ppp0
> 10.70.162.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0
> eth0
> 10.70.161.0     10.70.162.130   255.255.255.0   UG        0 0          0
> eth0
> 0.0.0.0         170.11.1.1      0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0
> ppp0
> 
> # route del -net 10.207.161.0
> SIOCDELRT: Invalid argument
> # route del -net 10.207.161.0 gw 10.207.162.130
> SIOCDELRT: Invalid argument
> # route del -net 10.207.161.0 gw 10.207.162.130 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> Note that only the last line  actually worked.
> 
> -Eric.
> 
> Scott Nolde writes:
>  > What is the proper command to delete a route from the route table?  I've
>  > had to reboot because of a bad route associated with a ppp interface.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Scott
>  >
>  >
>  > ------------------------------------------------
>  >                  Scott Nolde
>  >          smnolde-linux at mindspring.com
>  > ------------------------------------------------