FC3 : KPPP DNS resolve prolbem

sandgroper · 02-28-2005, 07:29 AM

Hi

I have a problem with KPPP and a DNS resolve problem that has got me stuffed.

For the last few days I have been trying to get KPPP working in Gnome , I eventually got it working good yesterday and left the settings exactly as they were , but today when I go to connect I can't resolve any websites.

The connection to my ISP is good , that's not the problem , it's a problem to do with the DNS and resolving IP addresses.

After I make the connection and I do a route -n command it shows that I have been assigned a destination gateway for my ISP and allocated to ppp0 and when open up either Mozilla , Firefox or Konqueror , I get a blank webpage and the message of "resolving <my homepage URL>" in Mozilla and " Looking up < my homepage URL>" in FireFox and after it times out I get a message "Couldn''t resolve <my homepage URL>"

I can't ping or do a traceroute on anything , so essentially I am connected , but I can't resolve any addresses to anything.

But the funny thing about it is that I have connectivity with using the Redhat Network Device , it connects OK , but it's a bit sluggish resolving my first webpage which is set to my ISP , but after that , all the all other webpages open up fairly quick.

I don't have a firewall running and I have flushed iptables so that no iptables are running.

There is no fault with my ISP because I can connect to them by using Windows 98 and Mozilla.

Iam using a very stable hardware modem.

I have checked all the configuration files , some of them are :
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/ppp/options
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

I have gone through all the settings in the KPPP configuration tab and tried quite a few other combinations for the DNS Tab , Gateway Tab ..... etc and I have also created a complete new account and still that doesn't do any good.

The help files for KPPP doesn't help either.

So can anybody offer any suggestion as what could be the problem ?

Thanks.

anindyanuri · 02-28-2005, 11:41 AM

Please tell the contents of /etc/resolv.conf file and /etc/hosts file
Regards

sandgroper · 02-28-2005, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by anindyanuri
Please tell the contents of /etc/resolv.conf file and /etc/hosts file
Regards

Thanks for your reply.
I will post the files your requested , but first I will give you some more detail of my system.

I have 2 machines networked together , one connects (comp A ) to the internet by a modem and the other one ( comp B ) connects to that machine with a NIC.

ISP iinet.net.au
Name server 203.0.178.191
Connection type PAP

Comp A 192.168.0.1 emubitter.leopard leopard ( modem attached )
Comp B 192.168.0.1 emubitter.panther panther ( LAN )

Code:

/etc/resolve.conf

nameserver 203.0.178.191
domain iinet.net.au
search iinet.net.au

Code:

# File /etc/hosts
# Author Steve 
# Created 25/2/05
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost
# ===============================================
192.168.0.1	emubitter.leopard	leopard
192.168.0.2	emubitter.panther	panther

Code:

# hosts.allow	This file describes the names of the hosts which are
#		allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
#		by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.

# created 25/2/05
ALL:127.0.0.1
ALL:192.168.0.2
in.telnetd:192.168.0.2 , 127.0.0.1
in.rlognd:192.168.0.2
sshd:192.168.0.2

The resolve problem has to be somewhere with KPPP because I can connect and web browse using the RH Device Control , but on startup , the browser is sluggish in resolving the first webpage , but after that , the web browsing is good.

Have you got any ideas of what the resolve problem could be ?

Do you know any other files that KPPP uses ?

Thanks

ivan6 · 07-13-2006, 06:44 PM

I fear i have the same problem...
I connect to my ISP with kppp or ppp-go,then its connected but i cant resolve no web page in the browser.
My resolv.conf looks fine, domain of isp and nameserver.
Like if i never reach the dns, it solve no adress, with ping either.
help
Any idea?

sandgroper · 07-14-2006, 12:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivan6

I fear i have the same problem...
I connect to my ISP with kppp or ppp-go,then its connected but i cant resolve no web page in the browser.
My resolv.conf looks fine, domain of isp and nameserver.
Like if i never reach the dns, it solve no adress, with ping either.
help
Any idea?

Hi Ivan6
It sounds like you have a DNS resolve problem , make sure you have a DNS name server entered in the DNS Tab of KPPP and assign the default route to this gateway.

Here is a set of instructions that I wrote up after I fixed my KPPP problem , it shows how to set up KPPP and so that any user can connect to the ISP .

http://members.iinet.net.au/~stevera...kpppconfig.txt