From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 28 10:33:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14432 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 10:33:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall2.startribune.com (firewall2.startribune.com [132.148.80.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14326 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 10:33:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bendede@startribune.com) Received: by firewall2.startribune.com; id MAA07655; Thu, 28 May 1998 12:41:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailserv1.startribune.com(132.148.25.25) by firewall2.startribune.com via smap (3.2) id xma007524; Thu, 28 May 98 12:41:28 -0500 Received: from MANNY by mailserv1.startribune.com; Thu, 28 May 1998 12:40:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: by MANNY with Microsoft Mail id <01BD8A35.7FF2F2D0@MANNY>; Thu, 28 May 1998 12:38:22 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD8A35.7FF2F2D0@MANNY> From: Dave Bender To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Get dynamically assigned DNS server IP address? Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:38:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA14330 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How can I configure my ppp dial-out connection to fetch my ISP's DNS server when the DNS server is dynamically assigned? To clarify: I'm setting up my home FreeBSD machine to dial into my ISP, but the ISP (actually, the office) system doles out the DNS number dynamically. (From WindowsNT, the DNS gateways are blanked out.) For now, any IP connections from my FreeBSD machine require an absolute IP address, which makes web browsing darned impossible! I'd even be willing to hard code this value somewhere if I knew how to find out what it's currently using, presuming that it really doesn't change all that often. Does it? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Meanwhile, I'm off to Amazon.com to order that "DNS and Bind" book.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message