[aclug-L] Re: Kppp, and hosname lookup failure

[Kong Wo <tkwo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try this before dialing kppp

Under root:
#route del default gw 192.168.20.70

Then try to dial out with kppp.

Mohammad K Islam wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have installed RH 6.0 last night and set up kppp to dial up southwind. Now 
> i can dial
> southwind fine and ping outside with ip address only.(ping 206.53.103.1 and 
> so forth)
> But i am unable to ping by name(ping southwind.net). I have the 
> /etc/resolv.conf file and it has
> the name servers of southwind. I stopped and restarted the inet deamon.
>
> Stiill cannot relosve ipaddress/hostname problem.
>
> So my question is, what am i missing here? Suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Here is what ifconfig shows
>
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>           inet addr:206.53.100.67  P-t-P:206.53.100.252  Mask:255.255.255.255
>           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1524  Metric:1
>           RX packets:842 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1364 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>
> Here is my netstat -rn
>
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
> 192.168.20.70   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0 eth0
> 206.53.100.252  0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0 ppp0
> 192.168.20.0    192.168.20.70   255.255.255.0   UG        0 0          0 eth0
> 192.168.20.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0 lo
> 0.0.0.0         206.53.100.252  0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 ppp0
>
> Thanks in advance for your kind help.
>
> Mohammed.