[GLLUG] Comcast issue

[Melson, Paul]

What hapens if you open a terminal (xterm, or whatever) and type `nslookup www.cnn.com` ?  Do you get an IP address response?  If so, then DNS is working.  I have Comcast (formerly attbi.com) in Dewitt, and my nameservers are: 63.240.76.4 and 204.127.198.4.  
 
PaulM

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Mike Bhaumik [mailto:BhaumikM at michigan.gov] 
	Sent: Tue 1/27/2004 9:41 AM 
	To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu 
	Cc: 
	Subject: [GLLUG] Comcast issue
	
	

	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
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