USER:did i win? LINUX: Hell no please help

[Prisoner]

ok i finnaly got a isp to work with linux. ok i get connected but i cant surf the internet. whats wrong now?? and also its saying something about some1 else using my netscape or some BS please help :mad:

[EscapeCharacter]

you probably didnt add your dns servers to /etc/resolv.conf
add them in the following format
nameserver ipoffirstdns
nameserver ipofseconddns
then save the file and try again. if you dont know your dns server ips just call up your isp and ask them.

[Tyr-7BE]

Also try a different browser such as Konqueror or even lynx, just to make sure that you really are connected and that the dns is the problem.

[Prisoner]

ok now its saying that netscape was unable to locate the server what should i do now

[Harvey]

open up a terminal and type

lynx www.linuxnewbie.org (http://www.linuxnewbie.org)

see if it gets you anywhere. if it does. we know that your connection is cool.

make sure that your dns server addy's are correct in /etc/resolv.conf

you can do a winipcfg in windows while connected to get information about what your dns addy should be.

good luck!

[Prisoner]

it said badly formed address. and it said start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain exiting please help

[mangeli]

Yea, you need to type lynx http://www.linuxnewbie.org


What are you using to dial in?

[ 26 February 2001: Message edited by: mangeli ]

[Tyr-7BE]

I just wanted to say that this is a great topic for the post :)

[ph34r]

Here's one to try
http://mitv.mit.edu
http://18.89.0.72

Same machine, one by name and one by ip. If the name doesn't work, and the ip does, you have dns problems.

[Prisoner]

ok the ip address worked. so that means i have a dns problem. how do i fix it? i'm sega.net as a isp. so how do i find what there dns is? please help i feel i'm so close

[Prisoner]

come on people help a brother out.

[syn]

ok heres a pretty easy way to do it
go to a xterm and type netconf
then tab down to where it says dns or nameservers (cant remember right now sorry)
then enter the ip addresses of your isps dns servers
the easy way to do this is with samspade.org
do a whois on your isp and it should have a nameserver or 2 for you to type in, or actually it doesnt really matter I dont think, you can use any working nameserver

Domain servers in listed order: NS1.EARTHLINK.NET 207.217.126.41
NS2.EARTHLINK.NET 207.217.77.42 NS4.EARTHLINK.NET 209.179.179.19

heres a few for earthlink

[syn]

all you need is the ip address not the hostname, sorry

Domain servers in listed order: NORTH.PACIFICNET.NET 207.171.0.10
SOUTH.PACIFICNET.NET 207.171.0.9 NS.HEAT.NET 208.213.56.125
POSTOFFICE.SEGASOFT.COM 216.1.176.130

also heres sega.net's dns servers

[Prisoner]

i finnaly got it to work thankx guys.