From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 22:51:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA14221 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 22:51:15 -0700 Received: from oasis.txdirect.net (oasis.txdirect.net [204.57.120.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA14215 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 1995 22:51:13 -0700 Received: (from rsnow@localhost) by oasis.txdirect.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA08031; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 00:51:02 -0500 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 00:51:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@oasis To: Mark Smith cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS client over PPP?!? In-Reply-To: <9508120425.AA00509@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Mark Smith wrote: you can either put the names in your hosts file or for DNS lookups point you resolv.conf file at the nearest nameserver. ie. ################# /etc/resolv.conf ################# domain txdirect.net nameserver 204.57.120.6 BTW, my nameserver is also on the other end of my ppp link. > I just got my PPP connection to run using the PPP scripts in the ppp.FAQ > file. Only one problem, how do I set it up so I can use the remote > server's DNS services so I can say "telnet name" instead of "telnet > 111.111.111.111"?!? > > Thanks in advance > > Mark > > -- > > ========================================================================= > UNIX IS user friendly, it's just very choosy about who it calls a friend! > ========================================================================= --- Rob Snow rsnow@txdirect.net