Re: [linuxiran] Modem Troubleshooting

[Aryan Ameri]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:13, Kaveh Mousavi wrote:
> If you can connect to your ISP and can't see any page
> it may be DNS problem check
> ping 216.239.51.99
> to see if you can access the sites by ip,
> then use http://216.239.51.99/ to see if you can see
> google's page if the answer is yes, set your DNS in
> Main Menu->System Settings->Network->DNS
>
> and set something like 62.220.100.201
> there,


Ask for your local DNS from your ISP. Using a local DNS (the one that 
your ISP provides) makes your connection much faster than using 
yet-another-public-DNS on the internet.

And by the way, another way of setting the DNS, is by editing /etc/hosts

-- 
/*  "Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a
theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those
 who are cold and are not clothed."*/
                --President Eisenhower

Aryan Ameri