Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:30:21
Message-Id: CAN_TFxMve9FEk62qhEr3MCcMiGnX+m_fHUz66yY047L65dtsJA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd by Maxim Wexler
1 oh wait...it's set in /etc/ppp/peers/<provider>
2
3 On 3/21/12, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > Doesn't 40-dns apply only if the 'usepeerdns' option is set. As far as
5 > I can tell that option is not set. Maybe it should be.
6 >
7 >
8 >
9 >
10 > On 3/21/12, YoYo Siska <yoyo@××××××.sk> wrote:
11 >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
12 >>> >
13 >>> > Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same strong
14 >>> > suspicion Bill and YoYo have... DNS is likely not getting set properly
15 >>> > in /etc/resolv.conf
16 >>>
17 >>> I always assumed that DHCP was writing this file automatically, so I
18 >>> never checked, but this time I made sure to check and viola! there
19 >>> they were.
20 >>
21 >> with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the
22 >> nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if
23 >> peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in
24 >> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes those to /etc/resolv.conf
25 >>
26 >>>
27 >>> > "saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu" ...
28 >>> > did that include dropping them into place on the Gentoo side
29 >>>
30 >>> naturlich
31 >>>
32 >>> MW
33 >>>
34 >>
35 >> yoyo
36 >>
37 >>
38 >