[GLLUG] Comcast issue

[Jason Watson]

[GLLUG] Comcast issueI have Comcast here in South Lansing and my nameservers are: 63.240.76.198 and 204.127.199.8.  These are obtained using dhcp on my IPCop firewall/gateway.

--Jason Watson
  -----Original Message-----
  From: linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu [mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Melson, Paul
  Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:52 PM
  To: Mike Bhaumik; linux-user at egr.msu.edu
  Subject: RE: [GLLUG] Comcast issue


  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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