From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 12:59:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13089 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 12:59:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kaori.communique.net (kaori.communique.net [204.27.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13076 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 12:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rzig@verio.net) Received: by kaori.communique.net with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Tue, 12 May 1998 14:58:47 -0500 Message-ID: From: Raul Zighelboim To: "'Doug White'" , Spike Gronim Cc: fbsdqs Subject: RE: Server assigned DNS Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 14:58:44 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is a Microsoft/Ascend thing meant to set DNS servers during PPP negotiation.. ================================================== Raul Zighelboim rzig@verio.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug White [SMTP:dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 1:25 PM > To: Spike Gronim > Cc: fbsdqs > Subject: Re: Server assigned DNS > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message