Re: return of DNS problem
Hi, Yeah I thought of that (resov.conf being a directory rather than a
file) but it is a file. I meant to include that in the post and forgot.
I'll run the command just to be sure though. You have the command as
ls-ld /etc/resov.conf is the 'd' in there a typo? I thought it was ls-l.
Quoting Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:01:57AM -0800, J Y wrote:
> > Hi, After getting grub to work and booting with the k7 kernel rather
> > than the bf2.4 the DNS problem returned..or that's what I think I'm
> > seeing-basically a conection that doesn't work. So I ran plog, I got an
> > exit status 1; I put exit 0 in the 6 scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
> >
> > Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx pppd[1328]: not replacing existing default route
> > to tap0 [0.0.0.0]
> > Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx pppd[1328]: Cannot determine ethernet address for
> > proxy ARP
> > Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx pppd[1328]: local IP address 67.75.63.145
> > Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx pppd[1328]: remote IP address 63.215.27.35
> > Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx pppd[1328]: primary DNS address 209.244.0.3
> > Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx pppd[1328]: secondary DNS address 209.244.0.4
> > Oct 13 12:34:57 deblnx pppd[1328]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid
> 136> 9)
> > Oct 13 12:34:58 deblnx pppd[1328]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid
> > 1369), status = 0x0
> > deblnx:/home/john#
> >
> > deblnx:/home/john# ls -l /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
> > total 24
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 969 Oct 13 12:26 000usepeerdns
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2466 Oct 13 12:27 0dns-up
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 831 Oct 13 12:30 1wwwoffle
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 92 Oct 13 12:33 exim
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 246 Oct 13 12:33 fetchmail
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 230 Oct 13 12:34 leafnode
> >
> > after removing the 'exit 0' from exim (this time I did it in the order
> > of ls -l ) I got a:
> >
> > deblnx:/home/john# plog
> > Oct 13 12:45:55 deblnx pppd[1739]: not replacing existing default route
> > to tap0 [0.0.0.0]
> > Oct 13 12:45:55 deblnx pppd[1739]: Cannot determine ethernet address for
> > proxy ARP
> > Oct 13 12:45:55 deblnx pppd[1739]: local IP address 67.75.62.176
> > Oct 13 12:45:55 deblnx pppd[1739]: remote IP address 63.215.27.33
> > Oct 13 12:45:55 deblnx pppd[1739]: primary DNS address 209.244.0.3
> > Oct 13 12:45:55 deblnx pppd[1739]: secondary DNS address 209.244.0.4
> > Oct 13 12:45:55 deblnx pppd[1739]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid
> 178> 0)
> > Oct 13 12:45:55 deblnx pppd[1739]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid
> > 1780), status = 0x1
> >
> > This is what's in exim:
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > # Flush exim queue
> > if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then
> > /usr/sbin/exim -qf
> > fi
> >
> > I'm just doing what I remembered from the help I got before. Yet the
> > symptom and results seem the same.Thanks
>
> Well, if the symptoms are the same, the first thing to check is if the
> cause is the same. We eventually determined that the cause was that
> /etc/resolv.conf was a directory instead of a file, and cured it by
> making sure that /etc/resolv.conf was a file. So, the first thing to
> check is: has /etc/resolv.conf mysteriously turned back into a
> directory again? ls -ld /etc/resolv.conf
>
> By the time the exim script is run, DNS has already been set up.
> Failure of the exim script would result in your outgoing mail not
> being sent, but you'd still be able to use your browser etc. You can
> run exim -qf (as root) by hand after bringing the connection up to see
> if exim does have a problem.
>
> (Your kernel must be supporting PPP, otherwise you wouldn't be getting
> this far at all. Don't worry about that.)
>
> --
> Pigeon
>
> Be kind to pigeons
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>
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