[Techtalk] Can't ping DNS

[Terri Oda]

Can you ping your gateway? (By IP 207.189.172.98 according to your files, so
I hope that's the right address. :) )

I'm guessing this is a no since you couldn't ping anything other than
yourself, but it's a handy thing to know explicitly.

The only thing that jumps out at me from your files is the routing table:
> ==============================
> route -n:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination          Gateway         Genmask                 Flags   
> Metric    Ref    Use Iface
[1]> 207.189.172.98  0.0.0.0            255.255.255.255    UH      0         
>  0        0 ppp0
[2]> 192.168.1.0        0.0.0.0            255.255.255.0        U         
> 0          0        0 dummy0
[3]> 127.0.0.0            0.0.0.0            255.0.0.0                U      
>   0          0        0 lo
[4]> 0.0.0.0                0.0.0.0            0.0.0.0                   U    
>     0           0        0 ppp0
[5]> 0.0.0.0            207.189.172.98  0.0.0.0                   UG      
> 0           0        0 ppp0

I labelled the lines to make this easer to say...

[1] and [5] are the ones you need for routing through your modem, while [2]
and [3] shouldn't make any difference.  I don't know what line [4] is up to,
but I suspect it's no good, since it's unecessary for modem routing.  Can
you get rid of this line and try again?

 Terri