Unable to browse internet
 

The dreaded internet connection problem rears its ugly head again. I have searched and read heaps but to no avail. I am running MDK9 and trying to connect to the internet via a 33.6K Banksia (Dynalink) external modem. Connecting isn't a problem but browsing is. I seem to have DNS errors but I have put the DNS server ips into resolv.conf manually and also let them be found dynamically. Still I can't browse.

Is the a bunch of files I can delete or delete the contents of that can allow for my system to automatically reconfigure? For example, DNS entries, gateways, or anything else that may be causing problems.

A few more details would probably help too, so here goes. I used to connect to the internet via a WIN XP machine which was running NAT32. Fantastic program but I have recently started to have problems with it. So now I want to reverse the situation and connect using my linux box and use it as a gateway for my XP box.

One further thing to note and I have no idea if this maybe a problem or not. My ISP has told me that the DNS server IPs are as follows:
203.194.27.57
203.194.56.150

BUT, when I connect using either the XP or the linux box the IP for the DNS come back as 203.220.32.107 every time and every day.

Please help. I am having withdrawl symptoms here.

Jason

There's an option you can pass to pppd that will make it dyamically get assigned DNS servers. It's something like "dynamic" or "dynamicdns" or some variant. A man pppd will yield results. Then just put it in your ISP setup file.

Already tried that. Dynamic or static doesn't work.

Could you post your ISP config file and your resolv.conf? Also, which app are you using to connect? wvdial, pon?

Not sure what the ISP config file is. I use kppp to connect and I assume it must create a file with the settings in.

I can't post my resolv.conf as I am at work. But from memory it is as follows

name dodo.com.au
nameserver 203.194.27.57
nameserver 203.194.56.150


Currently I am back to connecting throught the XP box and for some reason I have to go into MDK setup and disable ICS. But everytime I reboot it is running again.

I would really like to get linux as the server here and it is getting frustrating.

Thanks in advance

kppp I believe is just a front end for wvdial. I only ever used pon. All I ever did was used pppconfig to set it up. If you don't have it then just edit your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file. It may be in a different place so do a man pon. Then put something like this into the file:

Hope that helps.

That looks very similar to the etc/ppp/options file. Mine is similar to the following:

lock
noauth
noipdefault
nopeerdns

I think that is pretty close. There is no ISP info in it at all. I will check tonight to see what it says for sure.

Try usepeerdns instead of nopeerdns.

Just out of interest. What exactly does it actually mean? In simple terms.

Type in man pppd to get all the options and their descriptions. The description of "usepeerdns" is:

Thank you for that and please don't take this the wrong way but I read the man page for it. Thats why i asked for a simple explaination.

When it says "Ask the peer for up to 2 DNS....." what is the peer?? My understanding of a peer is something at the same level. If it is refering to the ISPs server then that is not at the same level in the network scheme. This is why I think I am having some trouble, pointing at the wrong PC for info.

Just wish man pages were writen like dummies guides.

The peer is the ISP's computer/server. It's called a peer because all nodes on a network are peers. I think it's because both do their own processing and therefore neither can be the master nor the slave.

Thank you. Thats sort of what I thought. Just confusing how computer english is different to reall english.

Still can't connect though. Will try again on the weekend.

Is there a way other than reinstalling to make sure I delete all configs and start from scratch? just for the networking and internet.

See if you can try it with pon. Type it into a terminal and see if you actually have it installed. If so you may be able to just rip off my config file.

No pon and no man pages to it. I will see if I can download it from somewhere.