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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!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: setting up user ppp Date: 1 Jan 1996 18:21:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4c98o7$9si@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4c7f3k$gu4@feenix.metronet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Keywords: ppp In article <4c7f3k$gu4@feenix.metronet.com>, Jake Traynham <jatray@jove.acs.unt.edu> wrote: >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 Did you configure in a name server? Check your /etc/resolv.conf and also be sure that you're adding a default route properly. See the man pages for netstat and ifconfig - telnet is the wrong tool to use for the job of debugging this, and you need to look more low-level to make sure that your basic connectivity is there first before going on to telnet! Jordan