Hate to give up

[John Heinen]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> John Heinen wrote:
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>>> On 06/01/2009 12:50 PM, John Heinen wrote:
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>>>> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
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>>>>> 2009/6/1 John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net>:
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>>>>>>> Answer the other questions in the thread, otherwise you are simply
>>>>>>> continuing wasting people's time John.
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>>>>>> Sorry, it seems to me that I did. ......the second suggestion........
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>>>>> Maybe I'm blind but I can't see anywhere an answer to this question,
>>>>> for example:
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>>>>> What happens if you type the following in a terminal?
>>>>> ping yahoo.com
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>>>>> Johnny Rosenberg
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>>>> unknown host yahoo.com
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>>> >From Dotan in this thread:
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>>> Post the output of this command:
>>> $ ping 74.125.67.100
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>>> This will check your (and google's) internet connection, without
>>> regard to DNS or Firefox.
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>>> Also:
>>> $ ping 209.85.171.100
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>>> Both are google.com hosts.
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>> $ ping 74.125.57.100
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.67.100 56(84)bytes of data
>> 64 bytes from 74.125.57 100 1cmp seq 1 ttl=51 time 180 ms
>> and so on and on
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>> $ping 209.85.171.100
>> 64 bytes from 209.85.171.100 1cmp seq =1 ttl=24 time =199ms and so on and on
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>> it seems to me that the internet connection with my provider is working
>> just fine and that the problem lies with firefox. John
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>     Now if you would again in a terminal type:
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> $ ping yahoo.com
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> and tell us what happened. I am wondering if there is no DNS ip given in 
> his computer.
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> Karl
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See above: unknown host .com
We used, pppconfig and pon, it doesn't ask for the dns numbers at
installation, the install opens up with provider and I have been advised
just to leave that as is..