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From: YoYo Siska <yoyo@××××××.sk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:52:32
Message-Id: 20120321144939.GA31943@ksp.sk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd by Maxim Wexler
1 On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
2 > >
3 > > Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same strong
4 > > suspicion Bill and YoYo have... DNS is likely not getting set properly
5 > > in /etc/resolv.conf
6 >
7 > I always assumed that DHCP was writing this file automatically, so I
8 > never checked, but this time I made sure to check and viola! there
9 > they were.
10
11 with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the
12 nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if
13 peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in
14 /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes those to /etc/resolv.conf
15
16 >
17 > > "saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu" ...
18 > > did that include dropping them into place on the Gentoo side
19 >
20 > naturlich
21 >
22 > MW
23 >
24
25 yoyo

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