From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 13 19:40:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24827 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:40:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parsons.rh.rit.edu (root@d117-h041.rh.rit.edu [129.21.117.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA24728 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:40:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mfisher@harborcom.net) Received: from mfisher by parsons.rh.rit.edu with smtp (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0yDhnW-0000GZ-00; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 22:39:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 22:39:46 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher X-Sender: mfisher@d117-h041.rh.rit.edu To: Rob Secombe cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: software ppp In-Reply-To: <199803140019.LAA05228@moat.teksupport.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Rob Secombe wrote: > not, a DNS problem. As I was running named on the the box in question I > simply removed the nameserver line in the resolv.conf file, forcing it > to use the localhost for DNS, and bingo it jumped into life. This may > not be the most elegant fix but it got me out of a hole at the time. Not the most elegant fix? The man page for resolv.conf disagrees with you here, sir. On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary. The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine, the domain name is determined from the host name, and the domain search path is con- structed from the domain name. -- Mike "I swear - by my life and by my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." --Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message