[6493] in RedHat Linux List
Re: dip questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Anderson)
Wed Nov 27 16:18:40 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:30:43 -0500
From: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
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Julien Michielsen wrote:
>
> After my earlier question "dip gives hostname lookup failure", I made
> progress, and got my machine to call my provider. From that point on
> I remain stuck: I cannot even locate my provider when doing an nslookup.
>
> A dip session I logged:
>
> YourCONNECTED to hgatenl.hobby.nl with address 193.78.42.1
> DIP: cannot create /etc/dip.pid: Permission denied
> $ nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address 193.78.42.1: No response from server
> *** Default servers are not available
>
> $ /usr/sbin/dip -k
> DIP: Dialup IP Protocol Driver version 3.3.7o-uri (8 Feb 96)
> Written by Fred N. van Kempen, MicroWalt Corporation.
>
> Terminated
> -----
> Questions:
> - what is wrong in my config files that I cannot access my name-
> server any more?
> - how to allow it to create /etc/dip.pid
>
> my config files: (nameserver hgatenl.hobby.nl, my machine
> kennis.hobby.nl)
>
> /etc/resolv.conf
> domain hobby.nl
> search kennis.hobby.nl hobby.nl
> nameserver 193.78.42.1
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=kennis
> GATEWAYDEV=sl0
> GATEWAY=hgatenl.hobby.nl
>
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.0.1 kennis.hobby.nl kennis
> 193.78.42.1 hgatenl.hobby.nl hgatenl
>
> ---
> Julien Michielsen +31-10-4765.771
>
>
What about your DNS related files in /var/named ?
Paul Anderson
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