From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 11:25:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25021 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24993 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA03246; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:25:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:25:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Spike Gronim cc: fbsdqs Subject: Re: Server assigned DNS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 May 1998, Spike Gronim wrote: > My PPP problems were not on my end. It turns out that my ISP > switched to server assigned DNS for security reasons How does that help? Your DNS server must be listed by the root domain, so all I ask is dig cncn.com to get the nameserver. What does `server assigned DNS' mean, anyway? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message