Configure Mozilla 1.6 for Web Browsing

[Ben Brown]

It sounds like your DNS servers are not working correctly, as you can
pull up google by IP. And, I just verified I can do lookups against
the DNS servers you are getting assigned.

Did you configure a firewall on the machine?


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:59:55 +0000, DAYE EMINE <demine1 at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> >From: "DAYE EMINE" <demine1 at msn.com>
> >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> >Subject: Configure Mozilla 1.6 for Web Browsing
> >Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:04:04 +0000
> >
> >Please can somebody Help-me:
> >I have been able to download and Install Fedora Core2
> >Used KPPP to Configured my Intel-536ep-PCI-Modem. My ISP provider is MSN.
> >
> >My Modem can dialup and connect to MSN fine, because a pop-up
> >window is now reporting the Baud-Rate, the time is also being updated.
> >That's all I get,
> >but if I click Mozilla for Web-browsing, Mozilla comes up and just sit
> >there doing nothing for a long time.
> >Finally it will say the web address cannot be found or not correct
> >but this is not true because i use:
> >
> >   http://www.google.com
> >   http://www.mozilla.org
> >   http://www.msn.com
> >
> >none of them works.
> >Being a Linux novice, I wonder if there is any kind of configuration
> >file that needs to be fine-tuned.
> >
> >Daye
> >
> >
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> I gave the this command "tail -f /var/log/messages" the result is as below
> 
> [root at localhost root]# tail -f /var/log/messages
> 
> Sep 15 19:54:12 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[2259]: session opened for user root
> by ( uid=0)
> Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): starting (version 2.6.0), pid
> 2373  user 'root'
> Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): Resolved address
> "xml:readonly:/et c/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source
> at position 0
> Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): Resolved address
> "xml:readwrite:/r oot/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
> Sep 15 19:54:13 localhost gconfd (root-2373): Resolved address
> "xml:readonly:/et c/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source
> at position 2
> Sep 15 19:54:16 localhost bonobo-activation-server (root-2378): iid
> OAFIID:Broke nNoType:20000808 has a NULL type
> Sep 15 19:54:16 localhost bonobo-activation-server (root-2378): invalid
> characte r '#' in iid 'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars'
> Sep 15 19:54:21 localhost kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured
> 49389 us ecs
> Sep 15 19:54:21 localhost kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 47414
> Sep 15 19:54:21 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for
> sou nd_slot_1
> Sep 15 19:54:36 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error running install command for
> sound_ slot_1
> Sep 15 19:56:34 localhost pppd[2559]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0
> Sep 15 19:56:35 localhost pppd[2559]: Using interface ppp1
> Sep 15 19:56:35 localhost pppd[2559]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/536ep
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: PAP authentication succeeded
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: local  IP address 4.185.207.46
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: remote IP address 63.215.28.143
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: primary   DNS address 209.244.0.3
> Sep 15 19:56:36 localhost pppd[2559]: secondary DNS address 209.244.0.4
> 
> I noticed that the Local IP and Remote IP address changes all the time but
> the
> Primary DNS and Secondary DNS stays thesame as shown above:
> I might say I issued this commad many times.
> Primary DNS address stays the-same at     :    209.244.0.3
> Secondary DNS address stays the-same at :   209.244.0.4
> but Local IP and Remote IP changes each time.
> 
> May I also add that using "http://216.239.39.99" got me to Google's page
> with ease.
> 
> Please can anybody make sense out of this so I can browse the web using
> Mozilla 1.6
> I dont know what else to do, Linux makes me feel so stupid.
> I will appreciate and try any help, any quess, solid or not.
> 
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