From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 16:47:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-56.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4EA1554E for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:47:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA02756; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:21:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01115; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:34:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910041734.SAA01115@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS/ISP problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Oct 1999 14:15:49 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 18:34:03 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > OK, at least i am connected to ONE ISP (dad's ;-)... but it's > long-distance. I'm using it because it works with the scripts i have set > up. My ISP uses a different kind of authentication. AFter connecting with > ppp, i hit return and login manually. What do i do after that to start > things? Usually i just wait, but the connection doesn't work after than. > Hostname reoslution. I think it's the nameservers. I've heard some ISP's > don't let you leech off their nameservers if you didn't dial in to them. > Is there an easy way to switch between nameservers for different ISP's? > I remember seeing something about delete ALL, enable dns, stuff like that. > Am i on the right track? Yes, add ``enable dns'' to your ppp.conf file. You could also ``set log +ipcp'' (or ``set log local +ipcp'' for output to the ppp prompt) to ensure that the peer is agreeing to tell you the DNS IP numbers. If they don't, you'll need to add a command to ppp.linkup that modifies /etc/resolv.conf for you. > jcm -- 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