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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 16:04:56
Message-Id: CAN_TFxO0FK+Dbf0KRqXYqD+jR8KC26ubXWqEEUZnNXWj_7BGtQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd by YoYo Siska
1 Doesn't 40-dns apply only if the 'usepeerdns' option is set. As far as
2 I can tell that option is not set. Maybe it should be.
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7 On 3/21/12, YoYo Siska <yoyo@××××××.sk> wrote:
8 > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
9 >> >
10 >> > Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same strong
11 >> > suspicion Bill and YoYo have... DNS is likely not getting set properly
12 >> > in /etc/resolv.conf
13 >>
14 >> I always assumed that DHCP was writing this file automatically, so I
15 >> never checked, but this time I made sure to check and viola! there
16 >> they were.
17 >
18 > with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the
19 > nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if
20 > peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in
21 > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes those to /etc/resolv.conf
22 >
23 >>
24 >> > "saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu" ...
25 >> > did that include dropping them into place on the Gentoo side
26 >>
27 >> naturlich
28 >>
29 >> MW
30 >>
31 >
32 > yoyo
33 >
34 >

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