From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 17:12:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C0F106566B for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patfbsd@davenulle.org) Received: from smtp.lamaiziere.net (net.lamaiziere.net [91.121.44.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0058FC16 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from baby-jane.lamaiziere.net (unknown [192.168.1.10]) by smtp.lamaiziere.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3124C633201; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:12:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baby-jane.lamaiziere.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD4A2CEE80; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:12:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:12:07 +0200 From: Patrick Lamaiziere To: Alejandro Imass Message-ID: <20100331191207.55672cfb@davenulle.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20100330232725.7419673a@davenulle.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.7; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: u3g network problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:12:12 -0000 Le Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:18:26 -0400, Alejandro Imass a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere > wrote: > > I've got some troubles with a 3G connection. I don't know which > > things I should check to debug this: > > > > I use ppp to connect and it works fine. But after a while (not a > > long time), I don't have any reply to DNS requests, as far I can > > see with wireshark... > > > > What are you using to dial to your 3g network? (I use wvdial, and > love it) I use ppp (wvdial does not seem ported to FreeBSD, is it a Linux only program?) > I've seen this happen on my 3g network as well. It seems that the ISP > randomly updates the DNS to a broken one. So write down the DNSs when > it's actually working (cat /etc/resolv.conf) and make yourself a > little script that updates them back to the working DNSs here is mine > for example (adjust to your working DNSs): I don't think that is the problem, I've already tried this (use opendns). Thanks for the idea however. Regards.