Hi Felix (Felix Meschberger), in <199509172048.WAA00267@fmesch.dial.eunet.ch> on Sep 17 you wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can't help responding to this one (though I can't get my A4000/40 to run
> NetBSD)
>
> > I try to ping anything by name, I get the "unknown host" message.  I've tried
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>
> Seems to be a clear indication, that you didn't correctly setup up
> your name resolver (file /etc/resolv.conf) to point to a name server.
> Or, maybe you have the name in your hosts File or NIS map and didn't
> configure to use those in the host.conf file (/etc/host.conf).
>
> Try an IP-address instead of a Name. If it works then it's that problem and :
> So, it ain't a PPP problem after all.
>
> If this IP-ping also doesn't work you probably have to set the default
> route to use your PPP-peer. But then, this surely is in the Networking FAQ.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
>

I connect through a terminal server, and I can ping the terminal server by
IP address, but I can't ping anything else (even by address).



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Tom Hayko
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