dip connections

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

so this implies you should check resolv.conf.

At 04:45 PM 10/19/95 -0400, you wrote:
>> 
>>    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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>> 	3. Virtual << Real.
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>> 	5. Technology transfer rarely works.
>> 	6. Engineers don't buy; they log roll.
>> 	7. Industrial funding is difficult.
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>> -- James H. Morris
>> 
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