Re: Round about the way question.
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> When dialing up to an ISP with a windows machine, DNS servers are
> assigned.
>
> When using "pppd call provider" on a debian box (or any linux box) a
> connection is made, but no DNS servers are automatically found.
>
> Why is this? Why do i have to manually put in DNS servers in my
> resolv.conf file when windows box automatically find those values?
>
> I'm sure there is something that i'm missing here, so please fill me
> in. :)
If you have a pppd version > 2.3.6 (slink has only 2.3.5, potato has
2.3.9), look into the usepeerdns option. Also look into pppconfig, which
will help you configure everything. At the least, steal the
/etc/ppp/ip-*.d/0dns-* and /etc/init.d/dns-clean scripts for use with
usepeerdns.
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