From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 21:58: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2FE037B5EF for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:58:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5D622A839; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:58:30 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572E15439; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:58:30 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:58:30 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: Dave Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp error when ISP igns DNS each session In-Reply-To: <20000428044856.22938.qmail@web3205.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Dave Banning wrote: > It seems, as you pointed out, that the ppp is running > OK - BUT - when I try and fire up netscape I get the > netscape error window: "warning the following hosts > are unknown : tracker1 home.netscape.com > home6.netscape.com internic.com > This means that some or all of your host will be > unreachable" (tracker1 is me) Send us the output of ifconfig -a and netstat -r. > What I also notice is that no matter what server name > and address I put in resolv.conf - ppp changes the > address > to something else - the man pages for ppp note that They are the DNSs negotiated by PPP with your ISP. > Now they are saying "we won't give you DNS numbers > either - let your machine figure it out like it does > the dynamic IP" - that leaves me with no - numbers! You can negotiate everything through PPP. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message