Re: managing multiple ISPs
Salman,
As far as I know, DNS servers are public. In other words, you can
contact them to resolve domains no matter which ISP you are connecting
with. I have been configuring my resolv.conf for DNS servers that do not
belong to my ISP all the time. To be more precise, depending on the
network architecture and other things, it may speed things up if you use
your ISP's nameserver, but it does not have to be necessarily so.
Finally, you can always run your own basic nameserver on your computer to
speed things up even more. Just follow the directions in the mini-HOWTO
or HOWTO document, and do not worry because you will not be at risk of
screwing anything up.
Nitebirdz
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
>
> I am currently in the process of evaluating a new ISP. The problem I am
> having is with the nameserver settings in /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> Currently there are two entries in /etc/resolv.conf for my present ISP
> (Interlog).
>
> Should I just add the nameserver entries for the new ISP to this
> /etc/resolv.conf file ? Will it take longer for hostnames to be resolved
> since there are now 4 entries in the /etc/resolv.conf but only two of them
> are "valid" depending on which ISP I am connecting to/from ??
>
> I am wondering if there are other people who have had to keep two (or more
> ISPs) and what other things they have had to configure, setup, etc. for the
> different ISPs ??
>
> On a related note: I am using XEmacs+VM as my mail reader. Is there any
> emacs package to handle multiple email profiles ? I need to switch between
> different smtp servers, different POP login IDs, and user/reply-to
> addresses and was wondering if either XEmacs or VM can somehow handle this
> for me ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS : What does the following message from /var/log/syslog mean:
>
> Remote message: upap: authenticated
> ^^^^
>
> What is upap ?? I thought the only authentication methods were PAP and CHAP
> for dialup ppp connections.
>
> --
> Salman Ahmed
> ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
>
>
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