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  From: Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  To  : Danny Coppick <dantree@adam.com.au>
  Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 23:49:24 +1030 (CST)

Re: Newbie expierence

On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Danny Coppick wrote:

>     Well after abt 6 mths of thinking abt it, and abt 2 mths trying to
<snip>

Glad to see you finally found a distribution which likes your computer.
Welcome to Linux :)

> And the other problem is what settings for Netscape Browser and
> Mail..?? I have been able to configure and dial up my ISP , but get a
> error when i load Netscape.. ....Unable to locate the server
> dingoblue.net.au.... ....Please check the server name and try again...

This is a Domain Name Server setup problem. When you specify a name such
as www.slashdot.org this gets looked up and translated into an IP address
(64.28.67.48). A page is then requested from the webserver on that IP
address.

You never mentioned how you were connecting to the Internet. However,
putting the lines: 

search dingoblue.net.au
nameserver 202.139.47.98      

Should enable netscape and other programs to be able to translate the
names to ip's, hence fixing your problem (You may want to check the number
- it will be listed as Primary DNS somewhere). You may also want to check
that the mail server isn't actually meant to be mail.dingoblue.net.au 

As for your printer, I have no idea :(

Cheers,
--
* Benjamin Close
* Benjsc@senet.com.au

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