From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 14 11:12:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16400 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16350 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19168; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:07:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA10082; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:04:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809141104.MAA10082@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Francisco Reyes" cc: "FreeBSD questions" Subject: Re: Multiple ISPs. What to put on resolv.conf? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Sep 1998 20:28:52 EDT." <199809130028.RAA05499@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:04:14 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I just got a new provider today and will keep the old for a month or > two. > Does it matter which DNS servers I use in resolv.conf? Some ISPs will reject DNS requests from non-subscribers. When I had two accounts, I had a ``setdns'' script which is called from the relevant profiles in ppp.conf. I did this because I have a local DNS with a ``forwarder'' to the relevant ISP DNS. Alternatively, with the latest ppp, you can try using ``enable dns'' in your ppp.conf file. If your ISPs will tell you what their nameserver IPs are automatically, ppp will update /etc/resolv.conf for you. You can get the latest ppp via http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html -- 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