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Re: [PLUG] Newbie's first question - modem will ftp, but not http
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> What I haven't figured out is how to reach any www addresses,
> such as the one on which my mail resides (also Voicenet, but a
> dynamically selected server rather than the fixed one for
> amenex.com). Even Google is unreachable; all return a "server
> not found" message.
What happens when you ping www.google.com from command line?
What ftp client did you use?
What is the contents of /etc/resolv.conf?
> I've configured Kppp and my Netscape Preferences identically
> to the ones on my W98 machine (running Netscape 4.7); the Linux
> PC is running Linux 7.2 and Netscape 4.78.
What linux distro is this? Red Hat I'm guessing. The highest version of
linux is 2.5.x (kernel).
> Once, when I ran "kppp &" in Terminal mode, I got an error
> message that "ppp0 can't be found" when I tried to access a
> www site from Terminal. That's the only clue that I can offer
> from the various logs I've read.
How do you get internet access? I'm guessing it's dial-up.
welcome,
Fred
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