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I had my pppoe to Earthlink working for a week but...

I managed to break something. I was trying to set up Samba
with my 2 windoze boxes(to no avail, but that is another
story) and my pppoe dsl connection stopped working. I had
so much jacked around I just reinstalled RH7.2.

I also reinstalled the rp-pppoe package and went through the
setup. It shows connected on adsl-start but I can't connect to
any host through the browsers.

ifconfig shows eth0, lo and ppp0 okay.

/sbin/route -n shows a proper Earthlink Destination address.
I can ping using the IP # but if I try to ping www.earthlink.com,
or anyone else it says unknown host.

I have been thru dejanews and google but I can't find much
and I keep spinning my wheels.

Be kind :^) My Linux knowledge is about 8 hours old...

A config file set wrong somewhere??

TIA,

Harry

nameserver setup in /etc/resolv.conf probably.

nameserver 192.168.10.1

That's for a local caching nameserver. If not running that, then you
want your ISPs nameserver(s) in there instead. Or somebody's :/

--
Hal Burgiss

That file was empty.

However, I don't know what IP to stick in there?? Putting a number
in there at least made the browsers look for some domains but they
never connected.

Every time I connect I get a different IP from Earthlink. I usually
connect through Chicago and I get a 66.32.xxx.xxx or sometimes
a 192.xxx.xxx.xxx.

Or am I really misunderstanding something here? <G>

Regards,

Harry

Any nameserver IP will do, actually. I found these for earthlink:

ns1.earthlink.net.      1800    IN      A    207.217.126.41
ns2.earthlink.net.      1800    IN      A    207.217.77.42
ns3.earthlink.net.      1800    IN      A    207.217.120.43
ns4.earthlink.net.      1800    IN      A    209.179.179.19

Pick one or two, put on separate lines.

Quote:> Every time I connect I get a different IP from Earthlink. I usually
> connect through Chicago and I get a 66.32.xxx.xxx or sometimes
> a 192.xxx.xxx.xxx.

> Or am I really misunderstanding something here? <G>

rp-pppoe can/should be getting this info for you if you want. That is a
config option somewhere probably. Or you can hardwire them as being
suggested here.

--
Hal Burgiss

Go to http://support.earthlink.net

Enter DNS in the search box

Scroll down to the link named "Various Domain Settings (DNS, Mail and FTP
server settings)"

Find your domain in the list, and use the DNS servers listed for it.

MANY THANKS Mark and Hal! That did it.

I don't know why rp-pppoe is not resolving the domain names
but I'll post to his forum.

Regards,

Harry