Hi Markus (Markus Dages), in <2151158c.u8t20e.222e2-paradise@axent.paradise.sub.org> on Sep 18 you wrote:

> Hi Tom (Tom Hayko),
> in <21505299.u8t20e.ddec-tjhayko@timper> on Sep 17 you wrote:
>
> > Hi Jukka (Jukka Marin), in <199509171713.UAA26455@teeri.jmp.fi> on Sep 17 you wrote:
> >
> > > > Whenever
> > > > I try to ping anything by name, I get the "unknown host" message.
> > >
> > > Have you specified the address of your nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf ?
> > > If ping with numeric IP addresses works, then this is your problem.
> > >
> > >   -jm
> > >
> >
> > ping with a numeric address only works if I ping the terminal server that I
> > got connected to.  ping with any other numeric address gives me "no route to
> > host".
>
> Check out that your default route exists with 'netstat -r' and if it set
> correctly. If not, then set it with
> 'route add default ip-adress-of-terminal-server'
> Without default route set to your terminal server the ip-packets don`t know
> any route out of your system.

Thanks to everybody who offered help with my PPP problems.  I've got it working
correctly now.  It was combination of my nameserver being moved and not adding
the default route correctly.