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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:39:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Grimm <grimm@shell.pgonline.com>
Cc:        support@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with ppp needed...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125123910.17459L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971121121649.12242A-100000@shell.pgonline.com>

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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Grimm wrote:

> I am having trouble setting up ppp for my 2.2.5 release of FreeBSD. The
> problem I'm having is that ppp seems to connect just fine, negotiate the
> ip (it's a dynamic IP I get from my service provider) and initiate a PPP
> session properly, but what happens is my DNS server is not recognized. ppp
> itself has no problems, just that whenever I try to connect to anything
> with a domain name, it doesn't work. I have read the online man pages and
> the bit in the handbook concerning my problem, the result being that I
> have set up my resolv.conf file (hopefully properly...) for the proper
> nameserver ip.

You need to modify /etc/resolv.conf to point to your ISP's nameserver. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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