Re: [SLUG] Internet Permissions

From: Scott Piper (piper@ij.net)
Date: Sat Oct 26 2002 - 11:08:56 EDT


Do you get anything different as a normal user for

/sbin/route

and do you have an /etc/resolv.conf file? pppd (and perhaps pppoe?)
will create one using the dynamic option. Maybe you don't have one and
need to point to a nameserver.

scott

rhires@earthlink.net wrote:

>I followed your instructions. But no dice. I'm getting the idea that I don't
>have access to dns as a non-root user. The reason I think this is that I used
>a gnutella client just to check, and that works...it only uses ip addresses to
>do its thing. So, what could prevent a normal user from getting dns
>information?
>
>Russell
>
>On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:50:10 -0500 Scott Piper <piper@ij.net> wrote:
>



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