[NBLUG/talk] Can't connect to the Internet

[Roger House]

Once again, thanks to everyone who is helping me with this.  --  I set up
resolv.conf as suggested by Ken, and presto! I can connect with the 
Internet
again.  A big relief.  (By the way, the sonic.net IP address may be 
there because
I have an account with sonic, and up until a couple of months ago they were
my ISP via DSL.  I now work where there is no DSL, hence the move to 
Comcast.)

However, all is not yet ideal.  Although I seem to have full access to the
Internet, I am now not able to VPN to the remote machine.  When I run
vpnc-connect as I always have in the past, I now get this error:

    /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script:  1:  Cannot open /var/run/vpnc/resolv.conf-backup
        No such file

Despite this message, I am told that VPNC started in the background.  When
I run Terminal Server Client to connect, I get this error:

    szego.infocentricity.com unable to resolve host

That is the name of the remote machine I work on via VPN.  I have made no
changes at all to the scripts and procedures I use to VPN.

Any ideas?

Roger

 
Ken McGlothlen wrote:
> | From: Roger House <rhouse at sonic.net>
> | 
> | [...]  I looked at /etc/resolv.conf and found this (other than comments and
> | blank lines):
> | 
> |     search hsd1.ca.comcast.net. infocentricity.com
> |     nameserver 192.168.11.25
> |     nameserver 192.168.11.26
> | 
> | Unfortunately, I don't know if this info is okay, and, if not, what it should
> | be changed to.  My ISP is Comcast and the place I VPN into is InfoCentricity,
> | both referenced in the "search" line.
> | 
> | Here is the info displayed by the Status tab of my LinkSys router:
> | 
> | [...]
> | WAN:     
> |    (MAC Address: 00-04-5A-D2-D0-1C)
> |     
> |    IP Address:    67.188.231.59
> |    Subnet Mask:    255.255.254.0
> |    Default Gateway:    67.188.230.1
> |    DNS:    208.201.224.11
> |         208.201.224.33
> |          68.87.76.178
> | 
> | Please tell me how resolv.conf should be modified.
>
> Well, your LinkSys is getting its information from the Comcast DHCP server;
> that's where it's getting its DNS server information from.  If you change the
> contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file to match:
>
>         search hsd1.ca.comcast.net. infocentricity.com
>         nameserver 208.201.224.11
>         nameserver 208.201.224.33
>         nameserver 68.87.76.178
>
> that should work.
>
>                                                         ---Ken
>
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