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[ale] pppoe and dns and Hellsouth DSL
- Subject: [ale] pppoe and dns and Hellsouth DSL
- From: dbaron13 at atl.bellsouth.net (Wylde Bill)
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:06:45 -0500
John Wells wrote:
>
> I've got Bellsouth DSL connected with Roaring Penguin.
> I'm having a problem with DNS lookups. Bellsouth
> pushes these addresses to you via the server, so I
> specified "server" in the RP setup.
>
> Watching /var/log/messages, I can see plainly that
> these are setup by pppd. But all pings/dnslookups/etc
> fail.
>
> Big conceptual gap here....so I don't know exactly how
> to fix it. I know resolv.conf typically contains the
> DNS settings. How does linux handle it when they're
> pushed by the server (btw, they're not automatically
> inserted into /etc/resolv.conf)?
>
> If someone can fill this gap, I'd appreciate it.
Easiest thing to do to avoid all the fun is just to put the hellsouth
DNS servers in resolv.conf. Numbers are as follows: 205.152.0.20 and
205.152.0.5 . It works. *shrug*
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