Message-ID: <C436218A2954D511A6B00000D1ECDB10E712B3@PKCEXV006> From: "Philip, Anil" <aphili01@sprintspectrum.com> Subject: RE: basic question - internet access using ppp - Red Hat Linux 7. 0 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 21:29:29 -0500
I tried putting in the dns i.p.s in /etc/resolv.conf
It seems to work. A few minutes ago, I tried pinging from linux again -
now there is a 0% packet loss and I can surf the web!
thanks so much for the help!
Anil.
BTW glorb.com seems to be a good isp. $17/month for speedy V90 ppp access.
10Mb web space, and a linux shell account.
-----Original Message-----
From: jim [mailto:jim@jimani.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:55 PM
To: Philip, Anil
Subject: Re: basic question - internet access using ppp - Red Hat Linux
7. 0
Anil,
I just played with pppd and the usepeerdns option and I have not been able
to get pppd to create a /etc/resolv.conf file as the man page says it will.
It will, however, ask my ISP for two dns IPs and pass them to /etc/ppp/ip-up
as environment variables DNS1 and DNS2. This is probably a better way to
work because it will allow me to build /etc/resolv.conf the way I want. If
you decide to try to build /etc/resolv.conf this way you should put your
script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local. The Red Hat distribution is set up to have
/etc/ppp/ip-up do some housekeeping and then call /etc/ppp/ip-up.local with
all the parameters and environment stuff with which it was called.
Hope this helps.
-- Jim--------------0AE56BCA2B0AA6432281EBE0