Modem Troubles

Adam Winkelmann yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Apr 21 14:08:03 2002


I, honestly, don't know any IP numbers to ping. I used to have 
MacAddict's written down, but I lost it. I'll get one and try it. I'll 
try your DNS servers when I reboot. Thanks, dude.

		-Moonie

On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 02:33 PM, Ryan Mesler wrote:

> can you ping any other IP address? if you can ping by number but not by
> name, then it's definitely a dns issue. in which case, all you need to 
> do is
> add your DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf
>
> domain xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> the ISP i work for has public DNS servers so you could use mine if you
> aren't sure of earthlinks. a temporary solution til you can find out.
>
> 206.66.10.46
> 206.66.10.94
>
> Ryan Mesler
> Technical Support
> Internet America
>
> If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Winkelmann" <mooniejohnson@mac.com>
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 1:56 PM
> Subject: Modem Troubles
>
>
>> Alright, I've tried Ars Technica... now I'll get to the people who use
>> the actual software.
>>
>> I have an iMac DV/400 that I recently installed YDL onto. Just one
>> problem... I can connect to the Internet just fine, but I can't do
>> ANYTHING but ping the IP I'm connected to. It's probably a problem with
>> the DNS server I put in, but... it might not be. My modem is at
>> /dev/ttyS0, and I use Earthlink. Has anyone run into this problem
>> before? Thanks in advance for the help!
>>
>> -Moonie
>>
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