[GLLUG] Comcast issue

Tue Jan 27 09:41:44 EST 2004

Hello

Thank you all for your valuable suggestions.                           

Yesterday I could finally connect to internet from Linux. Your
suggestions came very handy and these 2 websites were informative too.
But I'm just halfway there.                         

http://www.geocities.com/torus2000/Comcast_linux_setup.html            

http://www.tiger-marmalade.com/~james/journal.php?cms=568              

What I did was I got the connection working from Windows XP. Then Linux
could recognize it. I had to visit 12.242.20.9 (address of
sas.r5.attbi.com) from mozilla to confirm my connection to COMCAST. Then
a reboot ...                                                            

Good news :                                                            

I can ping,ftp my server (the one from my hosting provider) form linux
very fast and easy. The ping response comes back in less than 50
milliseconds. So it must be a stable connection. I can ping other
serevrs too with their IP address showing a good response time.         

Bad news :                                                             

When I try to go to www.cnn.com (or any other website) it can't resolve
the hostname and times out. I'm using mozilla.  The file
/etc/resolv.conf shows search is comcast.net and shows 2 other IP
addresses for DNS.                                                      

I noticed that my /etc/sysconfing/network file does not contain lines
about GATEWAY, GATEWAYDEV, NISDOMAIN.                                   

May I get some help here too; I'm a novice, getting started in Linux so
please bear with me.   

Again thank you all, specially to Mark Tarquini, Marshal Newrock,
Daniel Bennett, Benjamin Minshall, C. Ulrich, Bill Bartilson, Mike Neir,
Jason Watson, Scott Henry Harrison, Jeffrey Utter and Dylan M.          

Warm Regards