From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 25 12:39:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA25062 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:39:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA25049 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA17554; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:39:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:39:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Grimm cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with ppp needed... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Grimm wrote: > I am having trouble setting up ppp for my 2.2.5 release of FreeBSD. The > problem I'm having is that ppp seems to connect just fine, negotiate the > ip (it's a dynamic IP I get from my service provider) and initiate a PPP > session properly, but what happens is my DNS server is not recognized. ppp > itself has no problems, just that whenever I try to connect to anything > with a domain name, it doesn't work. I have read the online man pages and > the bit in the handbook concerning my problem, the result being that I > have set up my resolv.conf file (hopefully properly...) for the proper > nameserver ip. You need to modify /etc/resolv.conf to point to your ISP's nameserver. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major