It sounds like your DNS servers are not working correctly, as you can pull up google by IP. And, I just verified I can do lookups against the DNS servers you are getting assigned. Did you configure a firewall on the machine? On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:59:55 +0000, DAYE EMINE <demine1@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >From: "DAYE EMINE" <demine1@xxxxxxx> > >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: Configure Mozilla 1.6 for Web Browsing > >Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:04:04 +0000 > > > >Please can somebody Help-me: > >I have been able to download and Install Fedora Core2 > >Used KPPP to Configured my Intel-536ep-PCI-Modem. My ISP provider is MSN. > > > >My Modem can dialup and connect to MSN fine, because a pop-up > >window is now reporting the Baud-Rate, the time is also being updated. > >That's all I get, > >but if I click Mozilla for Web-browsing, Mozilla comes up and just sit > >there doing nothing for a long time. > >Finally it will say the web address cannot be found or not correct > >but this is not true because i use: > > > > http://www.google.com > > http://www.mozilla.org > > http://www.msn.com > > > >none of them works. > >Being a Linux novice, I wonder if there is any kind of configuration > >file that needs to be fine-tuned. > > > >Daye > > > > > > > >-- > >fedora-list mailing list > >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I gave the this command "tail -f /var/log/messages" the result is as below > > [root@localhost root]# tail -f /var/log/messages > > Sep 15 19:54:12 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[2259]: session opened for user root > by ( uid=0) > Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): starting (version 2.6.0), pid > 2373 user 'root' > Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/et c/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source > at position 0 > Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): Resolved address > "xml:readwrite:/r oot/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 > Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/et c/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source > at position 2 > Sep 15 19:54:16 localhost bonobo-activation-server (root-2378): iid > OAFIID:Broke nNoType:20000808 has a NULL type > Sep 15 19:54:16 localhost bonobo-activation-server (root-2378): invalid > characte r '#' in iid 'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars' > Sep 15 19:54:21 localhost kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured > 49389 us ecs > Sep 15 19:54:21 localhost kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 47414 > Sep 15 19:54:21 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for > sou nd_slot_1 > Sep 15 19:54:36 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for > sound_ slot_1 > Sep 15 19:56:34 localhost pppd[2559]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 > Sep 15 19:56:35 localhost pppd[2559]: Using interface ppp1 > Sep 15 19:56:35 localhost pppd[2559]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/536ep > Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: PAP authentication succeeded > Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered > Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: local IP address 4.185.207.46 > Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: remote IP address 63.215.28.143 > Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: primary DNS address 209.244.0.3 > Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: secondary DNS address 209.244.0.4 > > I noticed that the Local IP and Remote IP address changes all the time but > the > Primary DNS and Secondary DNS stays thesame as shown above: > I might say I issued this commad many times. > Primary DNS address stays the-same at : 209.244.0.3 > Secondary DNS address stays the-same at : 209.244.0.4 > but Local IP and Remote IP changes each time. > > May I also add that using "http://216.239.39.99"; got me to Google's page > with ease. > > Please can anybody make sense out of this so I can browse the web using > Mozilla 1.6 > I dont know what else to do, Linux makes me feel so stupid. > I will appreciate and try any help, any quess, solid or not. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- --------- Ben Brown xthor0@xxxxxxxxx http://www.xthorsworld.com
