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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!alfa02.medio.net!netnews.nwnet.net!serval.net.wsu.edu!beta.tricity.wsu.edu!msmith From: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) Subject: DNS for PPP client?!? Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News) Message-ID: <DD6JEx.4qx@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 04:06:31 GMT Organization: Washington State University Tri-Cities Lines: 17 Greetings, I just got my PPP account set up with the local ISP (I WISH it were ISDN but that's a pipe dream for now) and I used the pppup and pppdown scripts found in the FAQ/Text stuff and it works perfectly. My only problem with it is DNS. How can I get my machine to go to the remote DNS server when I give telnet or ftp a name instead of an IP address? I'd like to be able to type "telnet hostname.domain" instead of "telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx". Any help is gratefully accepted! Mark -- ========================================================================= UNIX IS user friendly, it's just very choosy about who it calls a friend! =========================================================================