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Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup



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.


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