Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup
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Deboo ^ wrote:
> On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Yep I meant that above line. Ip address means an "ip address" after
> all not hostname. And yes may be n00bs don't make a difference
> between the two. I'm no expert at all but not a n00b atleast.
>
>> > 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.
>
> I don't have either.
>
> dhcp is installed and I installed pump too since the dhcp client I saw
> at times unable to get any ip at boot. At other times it got without
> any error message.
>
> Regards,
> Deboo
>
Ah, then it is most likely the dhcp client causing your problem with the
resolv.conf
You can edit the file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and look for this line.
#prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
Remove the comment and change the address to the address of the DNS and
it will appear first in the resolv.conf regardless of what else gets put
there.
Joe
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