You may not know it, but in someway you must be using DNS when you successfully surf the internet. DNS is how your system translates the URL you type in a web browser into the IP addresses. The data travelling around the internet generally only uses IP addresses, so to get a web page in your browser this translation is essential. In windows when you dial up to the internet and your machine gets its settings automatically from your ISP one of the things it normally gets is the address of the DNS server to use. You can also make these settings manual, and some ISP's used to require it. So, you will need to check your dialup settings and check with your ISP and try putting the details in manually. As you say that you have previously connected using linux dialup, have you sat down and documented the changes that have happened? Did you run YOU? Did you install anything? Did you change any settings? Have you decided to use a different ISP? You don't mention anything about whether you tried the test that Purple Tiger suggested, it would help to diagnose the issue and you may then be able to get more directed help. Your ISP could have changed its policy and decided to only allow internet access through its proxy server (it happens here in the UK if nowhere else). Have you tried calling their help-line and asking whether they have made any changes recently that could affect your connection in this way? Damon
-----Original Message----- From: Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva [mailto:adagilson@cpqam.fiocruz.br] Sent: 21 May 2004 12:17 To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] can connect to isp, but can't open webpages
Thanks for helping, Purple and C. Hamel! Consider that I am *not* using a DNS server, but a dial-up connection. I have never needed to set DNS to access internet whether on Windows or Linux. Some more ideas? a.
The Purple Tiger escreveu:
On Thursday 20 May 2004 20:34, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote:
what should it be? some peoples told me that when this kind of things happen it should be misconfiguration with DNS. Is it true?
Hello Adagilson, It could be that you have not set up / are not pickup up the DNS servers. Connect to the internet and try opening up:
http://www.google.com/ If it doesn't work, then try: http://216.239.59.99/ If the second one works then yes, it is a DNS issue. I have not used dialup in a number of years, so I cannot help with that setup - there are others on this list far more knowledgable than I, but this should determine whether DNS is the cause. If the second URL didn't work, then it may be that you need to access the web via a proxy server OR there is something else amiss.
Hope this helps in some way, shape, or form :)
Take care,
Jon
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