[Aslug] $SOCKS-NS Error?

[Adrian Casey]

Matt,

Open a terminal and try to ping the DNS servers.  Are you running a firewall? 
 You may find it's stopping all outside traffic from coming across your 
internal network (this is often the default if you selected a Medium or High 
security installation).  Is pppd running?  A dialup connection consists of 
two stages - the dialup to your ISP and then ppp invokation.

Happy hunting!
Adrian.

On Saturday 31 August 2002 03:28 pm, Matt Bower wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> I'm doing my first install of Linux. Have got it to a
> point where RH PPP Dialer can create an interface to
> my ISP (Telstra) ie dials out etc. But then there is
> no incoming or outgoing traffic indicated on the
> Red/Green traffic monitors and when I start Netscape I
> get the following error message each time I try to
> access a URL:
>
> "Warning. Following Hosts unknown.
>   home.netscape.com
>   home6.netscape.com
>   internic.net
> Perhaps there is a problem with your name server. If
> your site must use the anon-root name server you will
> need to set the $SOCKS-NS environment variable to
> point to the appropriate name server. It may (or may
> not) be necessary to set this variable or the SOCKS
> host preference to the IP address of the host in
> question rather than its name."
>
> Does anyone know what this means? Doesn anyone know
> how to fix my problem?
>
> I've set up Dialup Configoration with the Primary and
> Secondary DNS. Is there anything else I need to do?
>
> Advice much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt Bower.
>
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Adrian Casey.
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