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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: setting up user ppp Date: 1 Jan 1996 11:12:05 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4c8fi5$2ho@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4c7f3k$gu4@feenix.metronet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 jatray@jove.acs.unt.edu (Jake Traynham) writes: > I'm having problems setting up user ppp for FreeBSD. I'm trying to > set it up for a dynamic ip number on tun0 (using cuaa3). I followed > the instructions in FreeBSD's online handbook for setting up user > ppp to the best of my ability, and it says I'm connected, but when I > try to do anything, like telnet, it pauses for about a min or so > then gives me a "host name lookup failure" or some such. Can you telnet directly with an IP address instead of a host name? (In this case, you might have garbled your resolver setup. RTFM resolver(5).) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)