[techtalk] Newbie question

Beverly Guillermo mezanin at home.com
Tue Jan 25 11:11:15 EST 2000


Can you do anything else while you online?  Try telnetting into your ISP.

If you get unresolved host, you may need to enter a DNS entry from you ISP
this should be placed in /etc/resolv.conf

Beverly

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 SallyCalich at aol.com wrote:

> Hi All;
> 
> I'm a linux newbie and have been lurking on this list for a little while.
> Hope I don't sound too ignorant.
> I have installed and been running Caldera's Open Linux 2.3.
> It's been quite the learning experience, but I've managed to get to the point 
> where I'd like to use the Netscape browser.
> I connect successfully to my ISP using kppp but whenever I try to do anything 
> with Netscape I can't get a name resolution.
> 


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