Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup
On Sun, 6 May 2007 19:11:34 +0530
"Deboo ^" <knowledgeful@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> > > Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's
> > > and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response.
> >
> > is that by ip address or by name?
>
>
> Well it should be clear from my mail below that I pinged their ip
> addresses, isn't it?
>
> BTW, I saw the problem. As soon as I connect, pppoeconf sets the
> nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf ... after a few seconds or in a min
> uet, those ip addresses vanish and get replaced by the ip 192.168.0.1.
>
Try doing ps aux and see if dhclient or similar is running
Also, what is the content of /etc/network/interfaces ?
> I re ran the pppoeconf and gave it the option not to update my
> resolv.conf but still this happened time and again.
>
> Now I changed the mode of the /etc/resolv.conf to not writable by even
> root and made it unmutable and still it's hapenning. Who is changing
> the nameserver to 192.168.0.1 and how?
>
> Regards,
> Deboo
>
>
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