Networking question

[Joey Hess]

Jonathan Jefferies wrote:
> Problem is that the process somehow disturbed
> something.  Symptom is that when I make a
> ppp connection - using wvdial - I cannot
> ping outside of my computer. The error message
> is that the "operation is not permitted".

Edit /etc/resolv.conf, take out 127.0.0.1, and put in and make sure you have
a valid external nameserver in there. Bind adds the 127.0.0.1 entry when it
is installed, and it may not properly remove it on removal.

> as default I still cannot ping outside
> my machine.

Even by IP address?

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