[OLUG] failures

[Brian Roberson]

Guess Its time I jump in.....


bind is the named server, you do NOT need to run it locally to resolve host
names......

lets start all over here.......


    After looking at your ifconfig, and route commands when you connect... I
do not see anything majorly wrong... lets start simple..........

after connecting... try to ping the ip address of you p-t-p server ..... use
this command to find out the distant ends ip:

if you are anal:

ifconfig ppp0 | grep addr | awk -F':' '{print $3}' | cut -c 1-14

or if you are lazy:

ifconfig ppp0
look for the line like this:
inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx P-t-P:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:255.255.255.255

the ip address after "P-t-P" is called the "distant end" ... this is the ip
address you want to check first... ping it.. ( ping -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx )
do you get replies???

if YES:

    ping a distant host.... whereever you want... try my box...
207.239.221.11

if NO:

    stop, report back to the list and we can go from there


if the ping was successfull:

try name to ip resolution..

ping www.bstc.net

if NOT successful:

name services are the problem..

ensure your resolver file is setup properly.. ( /etc/resolv.conf )  it
should look similar to this:

search whatever.domain.you.want.to.be.local     another.domain.if.you.want
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
(optional... additional nameservers) :
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

after this.. there are a few other things that could be incorrect... so
report back your answers and we can go from there.......



--Brian





"Chad S. Lauritsen" wrote:

> Nate:
>
> I think that not having bind installed could be the problem.
>
> You'll have to install it from the cd. Here's how :
> 1) Insert cd in cdrom drive
> 2) as root, say 'mount /mnt/cdrom'
> 3) cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
> 4) rpm -i bind-8.2-6.i386.rpm  bind-utils-8.2-6.i386.rpm
> 5) /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start
> 6) Connect to your isp and try, try again.
>
> --
> * Chad S. Lauritsen, Systems Administrator                       *
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