dip connections

[Chuck Noyes]

> 
>    From: cnoyes at maui.webo.dg.com (Chuck Noyes)
> 
>    I'm trying (and actually succeeded) in getting a dip
>    connection to tiac over a 28.8 line. However, not all
>    things work. I can ping remote nodes successfully as well
>    as running nslookup. The problem is with ftp, telnet, and
>    the latest beta 2.01b of Netscape.
> 
> If you can ping a node (by address, not DNS name), then the routing
> for that address must be right.  When you say FTP doesn't work, are
> you using addresses or names?  If nslookup looks up addresses but all
> other applications fail to access hosts by name, perhaps
> /etc/resolv.conf is wrong -- nslookup does *not* use the standard DNS
> resolver library (if I remember correctly).

   FTP by both name or IP address fail with the no route to server
   error.  Telnet behaves the same way as FTP.

> 
> Dale
> 
> Dale Worley						worley at world.std.com
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>