Modem Troubles

Ryan Mesler yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Apr 21 14:42:01 2002


the ip of my ISP's site is 206.66.12.86

yahoo!: 66.218.71.87
google: 216.239.33.100

yan Mesler
Technical Support
Internet America

If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0

ICQ: 45088864
AIM: Kraylus
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Winkelmann" <mooniejohnson@mac.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Modem Troubles


> 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
> >
> > ICQ: 45088864
> > AIM: Kraylus
> > ----- 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
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> yellowdog-general mailing list
> >> yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> >> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > yellowdog-general mailing list
> > yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general
>
> _______________________________________________
> yellowdog-general mailing list
> yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general