From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 11: 9:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2288711542 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:09:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13724; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:09:25 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00853; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:36:12 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199902180836.IAA00853@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: ethercat Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP connecting, not resolving hostnames In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:05:09 EST." <3.0.5.32.19990216200509.00b06de0@pop.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:36:12 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message