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Re: no google on dialup?



 Sounds like some kind of DNS issue on the dialup account. 

Is google the only site you can't reach, or are all sites inaccessible? 

DR 

R. Luoma wrote: 
> For some reason, I am unable to connect to google 
> when I use a dialup connection; to a certain extent, 
> I can get around this by using ssh to a remote shell 
> account and connecting to google by a text browser (lynx). 
> 
> Does anyone else have this problem? 
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions on how I might debug 
> this problem? 
> 
> Please note the following: 
> 
>    google does work from the very same computer (running ubuntu) 
>    at locations with non-dialup connections 
> 
>    the problem exists both for "firefox" and "links" 
> 
> Thanks 


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