Re: dial-up problems

["Shane Brooks" <shane floridacomputerservices com>]

When using wvdial, try to ping an ip address, say that of yahoo.com.  If
this is successful, it probably means your dhcp client isnt getting a dns
address from the connection.  Figure out the ip address of the dns server
your given with rp3 and try to manually set wvdial to this ip.  I'm not
familiar with either of these connection methods (don't use dialup), but the
ideas are the same.

Hope this helps
Shane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Silviu Cojocaru" <silviucj yahoo com>
To: "RedHat-List" <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:42 AM
Subject: dial-up problems


>
> I am using RH 7.1. I have configured two dial-up accounts using
> the dial-up config tool provided by redhat. If I use rp3 to dial
> in into any account, host resolving works without any need for
> me specify any nameserver. Now, I understand that rp3 is a
> wrapper for wvdial. If I try to dial into those accounts by
> using wvdial <account_name> the computer will make the
> connection, it will authenticate but something like "ping
> mail.yahoo.com" will return an error that the hostname does not
> exist. Another part of the problem is that the second ISP says
> nothing about the IP address of their namserver.
>
> Any idea on how to make host resolving work without editing
> /etc/resolv.conf ?
>
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