Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:36:12 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: ethercat <ethercat@ethercat.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP connecting, not resolving hostnames Message-ID: <199902180836.IAA00853@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:05:09 EST." <3.0.5.32.19990216200509.00b06de0@pop.mindspring.com>
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> Greetings,
>
> If anyone here can be of assistance, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> User PPP will connect to my provider (mindspring) and will ping,
> traceroute, etc., as long as I have an IP address, but fails when it tries
> to resolve a hostname. I am connecting manually using term, obtaining a
> dynamic IP address, and attempting to use mindspring's nameservers.
>
> Following are the contents of my resolv.conf, host.conf, hosts, and ppp.log
> files. If any additional information is needed to help diagnose my
> problem, please let me know, and I will happily provide it.
>
> Thanks,
> ethercat
>
> resolv.conf
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> nameserver 207.68.188.185
> nameserver 207.68.188.186
> nameserver 207.68.188.187
> domain mindspring.com
> enable dns
[.....]
Try taking the ``enable dns'' out of /etc/resolv.conf and putting it
in your ppp profile. It shounds like you've got your nameserver
addresses wrong - ``enable dns'' will fix this if the remote ppp
implementation accepts your dns confirmation requests.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org>
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