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by **vick** » Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:33:13

Hello Experts,
Recently installed rhl 8 , I have a dialup connection , I was able to
connect to the internet for the first time but when i rebooted the
system I was able to connect to the internet but I was unable to
browse , when I tried to access some website for instance when I enter
www.yahoo.com in my browser I was getting message as 'resolving
yahoo.com' in the status bar of Mozilla web browser .This message
continues for 3 minutes then I get the message as 'this website is not
accessible try some other request timed out'.

What is the problem because I'm able to browse the internet normally
on windows 98 .

I'm using KPPP dialer & mozilla browser .
I disabled firewalls (iptables & ipchains) .
I also disabled named (thought its remotely connected to this
problem).

Please helpme out .

Thanks in advance ...

Vicky.

by **George Bel** » Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:50:39

> Hello Experts,
> Recently installed rhl 8 , I have a dialup connection , I was able to
> connect to the internet for the first time but when i rebooted the
> system I was able to connect to the internet but I was unable to
> browse , when I tried to access some website for instance when I enter
> www.yahoo.com in my browser I was getting message as 'resolving
> yahoo.com' in the status bar of Mozilla web browser .This message
> continues for 3 minutes then I get the message as 'this website is not
> accessible try some other request timed out'.

> What is the problem because I'm able to browse the internet normally
> on windows 98 .

> I'm using KPPP dialer & mozilla browser .
> I disabled firewalls (iptables & ipchains) .
> I also disabled named (thought its remotely connected to this
> problem).

How about your DNS server? Have you tried any other web sites? If you
can't connect to anything then that might indicate you haven't set up
your DNS server, which for most home pcs it's set up as a caching only
webserver with the DNS server names of your ISP. I'm not familiar with
Red Hat to know what particular tools it has for setting this
up(linuxconf or some such thing?)

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Quote:> Please helpme out .

> Thanks in advance ...

> Vicky.

by **Dances With Crow** » Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:53:54

On 25 Mar 2003 18:33:13 -0800, vicky staggered into the Black Sun and
said:

This does not belong in col.x , which is for questions about the X
Window System (think "graphics display driver") for Linux. Followups
set to col.networking.

Quote:> Recently installed rhl 8 , I have a dialup connection , I was able to
> connect to the internet for the first time but when i rebooted the
> system I was able to connect to the internet but I was unable to
> browse , when I tried to access some website for instance when I enter
> www.yahoo.com in my browser I was getting message as 'resolving
> yahoo.com' in the status bar of Mozilla web browser .This message
> continues for 3 minutes then I get the message as 'this website is not
> accessible try some other request timed out'.

> I'm using KPPP dialer & mozilla browser .
> I disabled firewalls (iptables & ipchains) .
> I also disabled named (thought its remotely connected to this
> problem).

Kppp is not setting the DNS information correctly. When you configure
kppp, go to Setup-> Accounts->click on your main account->DNS. Make
sure that you set the "configuration" radio button to "automatic".
Alternatively, find out the IP addresses of your ISP's primary and
secondary DNS servers, then edit /etc/resolv.conf and add lines like so:

nameserver 1.2.3.4 # IP of primary nameserver
nameserver 5.6.7.8 # IP of secondary nameserver

...that's it. HTH,

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resolving example.com ..no response??

resolving example.com ..no response??

resolving example.com ..no response??

resolving example.com ..no response??