Configure Mozilla 1.6 for Web Browsing

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 23:59, DAYE EMINE wrote:
> I gave the this command "tail -f /var/log/messages" the result is as below
> 
> [root at localhost root]# tail -f /var/log/messages
> 
> Sep 15 19:54:12 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[2259]: session opened for user root 
> by ( uid=0)
> Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): starting (version 2.6.0), pid 
> 2373  user 'root'
> Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): Resolved address 
> "xml:readonly:/et c/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source 
> at position 0
> Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): Resolved address 
> "xml:readwrite:/r oot/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
> Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): Resolved address 
> "xml:readonly:/et c/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source 
> at position 2
> Sep 15 19:54:16 localhost bonobo-activation-server (root-2378): iid 
> OAFIID:Broke nNoType:20000808 has a NULL type
> Sep 15 19:54:16 localhost bonobo-activation-server (root-2378): invalid 
> characte r '#' in iid 'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars'
> Sep 15 19:54:21 localhost kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 
> 49389 us ecs
> Sep 15 19:54:21 localhost kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 47414
> Sep 15 19:54:21 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for 
> sou nd_slot_1
> Sep 15 19:54:36 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for 
> sound_ slot_1
> Sep 15 19:56:34 localhost pppd[2559]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
> Sep 15 19:56:35 localhost pppd[2559]: Using interface ppp1
> Sep 15 19:56:35 localhost pppd[2559]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/536ep
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: PAP authentication succeeded
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: local  IP address 4.185.207.46
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: remote IP address 63.215.28.143
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: primary   DNS address 209.244.0.3
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: secondary DNS address 209.244.0.4
> 
> I noticed that the Local IP and Remote IP address changes all the time but 
> the
> Primary DNS and Secondary DNS stays thesame as shown above:
> I might say I issued this commad many times.
> Primary DNS address stays the-same at     :    209.244.0.3
> Secondary DNS address stays the-same at :   209.244.0.4
> but Local IP and Remote IP changes each time.
> 
> May I also add that using "http://216.239.39.99" got me to Google's page 
> with ease.
> 
> Please can anybody make sense out of this so I can browse the web using 
> Mozilla 1.6
> I dont know what else to do, Linux makes me feel so stupid.
> I will appreciate and try any help, any quess, solid or not.

As everyone has suspected, DNS lookups are not working.

When the ppp software makes this connection, it should save a copy of
your regular /etc/resolv.conf file and replace it with one that contains
(at least) the lines:

nameserver 209.244.0.3
nameserver 209.244.0.4

At the end of the connection, the original /etc/resolv.conf should be
restored. Is that happening?

If it is then the ppp software is doing its job properly. What remains
to be asked is: is you system configured to do DNS lookups at all? Run
the command:

grep '^hosts' /etc/nsswitch.conf

The word "dns" should appear in the one line of output from this
command. If not, your system isn't configured to do DNS lookups at all.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>