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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: setting up user ppp
Date: 1 Jan 1996 18:21:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Keywords: ppp

In article <4c7f3k$gu4@feenix.metronet.com>,
Jake Traynham <jatray@jove.acs.unt.edu> wrote:
>and it says I'm connected, but when I try to do anything, like telnet, it 
>pauses for about a min or so then gives me a "host name lookup failure" or 

Did you configure in a name server?  Check your /etc/resolv.conf and
also be sure that you're adding a default route properly.  See the man
pages for netstat and ifconfig - telnet is the wrong tool to use for the
job of debugging this, and you need to look more low-level to make
sure that your basic connectivity is there first before going on to telnet!

					Jordan