Re: Browser

["Peter Barrett" <barrett-at-wasp.net.au>]

Hey Gene sounds like your getting on the right track

>
> I have never entered a ip address

This is because most ISPs have just run a "signup" script for windows that
automatically writes in the nameserver ip address in the right place.

In windows9x::
If you go Start->programs->accessories->dial-upnetworking and then
right-click on the connection you want to look at and then click on
properties a box will pop up with a button that says "TCP/IP settings"
You may find your name server address in there or it may say "automatically
assigned nameserver" in which case the best way to go is ring them and ask
for a fixed one.

>, I don't know what it is. I will call
> tomorrow and find out.

They should give you a number (or two, one for a backup) that looks like
123.123.123
Then you just add it to /etc/resolv.conf like this:

nameserver 123.123.123
 (well not that number put the number they gave you!)
if they gave you two write the line again substituting the new number so

I reckon thats easier than windows!!!

cheers

Peter Barrett