Re: Network settings and ppp
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Elizabeth R. Chichester wrote:
> Okay, I made a mistake. When I set up Debian on my home machine, I was
> thinking in terms of a home network and so set up networking (through
> eth0). Unfortunately, I got ahead of myself and don't have everything
> set up. Specifically, I didn't have internet access handled.
>
> I did set up wvdial during the installation process. It works. I'm
> able to connect to the ISP. However, I can't get a DNS reading (i.e., I
> can't ping anything successfully). The Gnome ppp dialer (where you can
> specify the DNS addresses of the ISP) consistently gives an error
> message.
I belive that the option 'usepeerdns' in the pppd options file configures
your system for that session with the ISP's DNS.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
>
> Does anyone know (or can you direct me) to where I should "disable"
> networking so that I can get DNS through my ISP and otherwise get on the
> 'net? Just a sample /etc/init.d/networking and /etc/resolv.conf (or
> other files) might do the trick.
>
> TIA,
>
> Ron
> ./.
>
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