Topic: Bigpond cable problem solved

[Lloyd Keen]

This may have been mentioned before but I just thought I'd post for the benefit of those BPA cable users that are having problems with Bigpond's bodgey www/some_broadband_site.htm hyperlinks. I remember Charlie and Luke Drumm were discussing it some time back. It's been a thorn in my side for a while now and I finally got it to work. If you enable DNS on the clients and then place e-smith.yourdomain.com followed by nsw.bigpond.net.au in the domain suffix search order you will be able to bring up your primary website by simply typing "www" in the browser. This used to always bring up Bigpond's Homepage before and if you click on one of Bigpond's www/broadband_whatever hyperlinks they work correctly as well. I have 2 e-mail accounts setup - Bigpond incoming is just pop-server and e-smith is just "mail" and it works fine. In the DNS search order I put the e-smith IP first followed by BPA's 2 DNS servers.

[DOOPY_LOOPY]

I'm curious as to what you did to get your BPA working?

Are you in Victoria?

Because at the moment I am receiving an IP address but I am not successfully logging on.  checking /var/log/messages i found that my bpalogin had not been able to connect to the authentication server.

Then checking the /etc/bpalogin.conf file it says it was using ip
61.9.128.29 as the authentication server.
Resolving this IP I get mer19.vic-remote.bigpond.net.au

But if i try to ping that IP it just says request timed out.

However if i try to ping gigabit-msfc1.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au
I have a successful response.

By doing a tracert to anywhere it seems to first go through a 10.128.8.1 ip then to the nsw-remote one.

This is a guess but is this my authentication server?

Also in the CharlieBrady RPM bpalogin-2.0-1 if i check the associated bpalogin.conf file the authentication server is not shown but there is an option for you to specify your own authentication server.  The example they provide is vic.bigpond.net.au

Obviously I'd use nsw.bigpond.net.au However there isn't the same option in the bpalogin.conf of the bpalogin-1.3-2 RPM.  Within that conf it says refer to templates if you wish to alter anything.  Then checking templates it presents me with the Perl script for generating the IP of the authentication server.  

I don't know Perl so i can't really follow this with any degree of certainty.

So where can i define the authentication server I wish to use?

I'm sorry if this was very long winded I just wanted to make it clear what I was doing.

Thanks for your patience.

DOOPY