[GLLUG] Comcast issue

Wed Jan 28 22:24:07 EST 2004

Speaking of Mozilla mail, I would have done it already, but I have not found
out how to export it back to Outlook 2002. Actully, I'm thinking of Mozilla
Thunderbird (Is that the same as Mozilla mail?)

As to connecting to the internet in linux All I do is specify my router as
the gateway.
I have never done any thing with nameservers.
Typing in:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.13 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add -net default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1 eth0

will get me on the internet.

Filling out the same info in the /etc/conf.d/net (I think that is the path)
of course so Idon't have to do it every time I boot.

All of this was done after my SBC dsl was confirmed/registered (what ever
you call it) on a windows computer.

Hth,

Seth Bembeneck
sbdataspiller at sbcglobal.net

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-----Original Message-----
From: linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu [mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu]
On Behalf Of Jason Watson
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:31 PM
To: Greater Lansing Linux User Group
Subject: RE: [GLLUG] Comcast issue

Fscking MS Outlook, wonder why that message came out so screwy.  Should have
been: I 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.  Maybe this would be a good opportunity to switch over to
Mozilla Mail on my XP box.

--Jason Watson

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Watson [mailto:jaywatts at gamebox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:25 PM
To: Greater Lansing Linux User Group
Subject: RE: [GLLUG] Comcast issue

[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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