On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:11:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > >> Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's > >> and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. > > > >is that by ip address or by name? > > > Well it should be clear from my mail below that I pinged their ip > addresses, isn't it? you mean above? Making an assumption about what people are doing can lead you down the wrong road. I don't need to tell you how many people would claim to be pinging ip addresses when they're not. :-P > > BTW, I saw the problem. As soon as I connect, pppoeconf sets the > nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf ... after a few seconds or in a min > uet, those ip addresses vanish and get replaced by the ip 192.168.0.1. as someone else said, if you've got 'zeroconf' (i think, not resolvconf) that could be part of the problem. A
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