[NBLUG/talk] Can't get online w/new RH8 Install

[augie]

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Dave Sisley wrote:
| here is what I get running 'route -n' (I hope formatting holds up...):
| Kernel IP routing table
| Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref
|   Use Iface
| 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0
|     0 lo

for dialing in you should have a route here for a pppN interface (where
N is an integer). i bet if you do a '/sbin/ifconfig' you won't see it up
either, but still check. ;)

| my /etc/resolv.conf file is an empty file.

that certainly makes resloving hostnames more difficult.

| is correct, is it?  If necessary, what is the easiest way to
| find the numeric address of my ISP &/or DNS server?

your ISP should have provided you with those numbers, they may be on
their website too.

| As for pinging, I was unsuccessful (but I'm not sure I was doing
| it right), but as I said, I can't ssh into a machine that I know
| accepts it and where I have an account (SSU CS department).  Let

since you don't have a route to anywhere outside of your local machine i
doubt pinging will be very successful.

i personally don't know much about configuring a ppp interface, but i'm
sure someone here does ...

augie


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