sympatico DSL connection and Mandrake 9.2

[Fraser Campbell]

On January 12, 2004 04:27 pm, David J Patrick wrote:

> >If it says "network unreachable", you have connection problems.  If it
> >says "host not found", then you may have problems with the DNS settings.
> >   Try adding manual DNS entries to /etc/resolv.conf
>
> it said "host not found"; DNS problems, eh ?

"host not found" is a dns problem but the cause may have nothing to do with 
dns.  Do you have an ip address on a ppp device?  Run ifconfig .... 

What did the logs say?

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