Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:16:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Cc: jleppek@harris.com, FreeBSD-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: ppp still not working Message-ID: <199504090816.KAA05591@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.DYN.3.91.950408133206.23291A-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Richard Chang" at Apr 8, 95 01:37:48 pm
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As Richard Chang wrote: > > > bigbang# cat /etc/host.conf > # $Id: host.conf,v 1.2 1993/11/07 01:02:57 wollman Exp $ > # Default is to use the nameserver first > hosts > bind If you care to modify the default sequence, please do yourself a favour and modify the comments, too. :) But since you make /etc/hosts getting a higher priority than DNS (normally a bad idea), you should also make sure your /etc/hosts is really valid all the time. This isn't perchance your problem? I'm not running PPP (SLIP only), but i've preferred to use another approach: local nameserver (mostly caching-only), and use numerical addresses for everything to get SLIP started. I think this is cleaner and avoids potential problems from old cruft in /etc/hosts (which is actually not even needed). I had to make my nameserver a (private) secondary of the local domain and local IN-ADDR.ARPA domain, in order to have it provide authoritative data even if the link is down. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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