From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 29 08:32:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16878 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:32:08 -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 IAA16789 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:31:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bendede@startribune.com) Received: by firewall2.startribune.com; id KAA17178; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:40:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailserv1.startribune.com(132.148.25.25) by firewall2.startribune.com via smap (3.2) id xma017062; Fri, 29 May 98 10:40:02 -0500 Received: from MANNY by mailserv1.startribune.com; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:38:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: by MANNY with Microsoft Mail id <01BD8AED.AB8BA5A0@MANNY>; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:36:42 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD8AED.AB8BA5A0@MANNY> From: Dave Bender To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Get dynamically assigned DNS server IP address? Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:36:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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