Re: Question for PPP Users

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

John Hasler wrote:

> Pppconfig creates a resolv.conf file in /etc/ppp/resolv for each provider.
> The /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up script moves /etc/resolv.conf out of the way
> and the appropriate file from /etc/ppp/resolv in when a ppp connection
> comes up. /etc/ppp/ip-down.d moves the original resolv.conf back when ppp
> goes down.  You can edit the files in /etc/ppp/resolv, customising them by
> adding search directives, etc.  This allows you to have a resolv.conf
> suitable for use when ppp is down, and one customized for each provider
> when ppp is up.
>
> Does anyone use this feature?  Would you have used it if you had known
> about it?
>  
I was aware of the feature in the sense that on reading this email I 
remember reading about it somewhere during the setup of my PPP, but I 
did not then understand why I might want the feature and I never 
revisited the issue, so I do not use it. I suspect that almost everybody 
has a more complicated setup than I do, so the fact that I don't use 
some feature should be lightly weighted.

Thanks for Debian

Paul