Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:23:16 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org> To: Juha Erkkila <erkkila@cc.jyu.fi> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot connect to an ISP with ppp Message-ID: <20021227185316.GB175@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
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--NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +++ Juha Erkkila [freebsd] [27-12-02 11:03 +0200]: | On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:56:40AM -0600, Shane Kinney wrote: | > I'm certainly no expert on ppp, however, it seems that your going to | > want to add a dns entry to the /etc/resolv.conf file. Talk to your ISP | > and find out what you need to use for a dns server, then add the | > information like this: | >=20 | > nameserver 201.101.101.101 | >=20 | > Or whatever they give you for an IP address. Don't know if that will | > solve all of your problems but it will help eventually :) |=20 | well, my ISP does support giving out DNS server addresses if it is | asked to, and i did `enable dns' in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, so i think | i shouldn't need to put anything to /etc/resolv.conf. i tried out | putting some nameserver addresses there (asking my ISP), but no, it | didn't work out :-( i think i should talk to some guys there and | see if they can help me out. thanks for your help anyway |=20 why not run named, as a caching local server? Only few steps to turn it on. Regards, Shantanu --=20 Everyone is a genius. It's just that some people are too stupid to realize it.=20 --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+DKGb8NTC7RN6/Z4RApOWAKDrfV6NtYnAWBzxfbNZVG+z8cuUKwCeKows nWzk/42wMLb1JxIxodhvREQ= =xzp7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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