On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 16:10, Timothy Coggins wrote:
> I have just installed unstable on my new machine. I have set up an ISDN
> link to my isp with the standard isdnutils package. It autodials out
> when an ip is specified (eg. 'ping 66.218.71.113') but not when a host
> name is specified. I have tried this with and without the 'nohostroute'
> option in /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0.
>
> I'm sure installing bind would fix the problem but this is a desktop
> machine and there must be a better way. Can anyone help? If anyone has
> this working could I have a copy of their ipppd.ippp0 config file?
You have to have some means of translating a host name to an IP
address. You don't have to have bind running on your desktop, but you
do need to specify a nameserver; if there isn't one running locally you
can point at your ISP's nameserver. Normally you do this by specifying
one or more nameserver lines in /etc/resolv.conf.
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