[PLUG] dial-up woes

[Charles Fultz]

chrisp <phillicc@cs.purdue.edu> writes:

> Does anybody on this list know how to dial up to purdue
> over linux?  My modem seems to be properly set up.  It
> dials and connects, but then once I try to browse, telnet
> (ssh) etc.. nothing is found.  Netscrape pukes up an error
> saying I may need to set the $SOCKS_DN env. var.  What
> the fuck is that?  I'm guessing it's outdated, but it's
> a clue.  I figured it just wasn't finding Purdue's DNS
> server.  So, I went back to winblows, dialed up, and
> got a bunch of IPs.  Went back to linux and put them
> in kPPP (dialer I've had the most luck with) and the
> same thing happened.  If I can get this to work, I can
> completely bomb my winblows partition and be rid of the
> evil for good.  There must be others that have had this
> problem.  I'm using Red Hat 7.0 with the 2.4 kernel.

Try adding this to /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 128.210.11.5

Charles Fultz
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