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From: reese@chem.duke.edu (Charles Reese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp not using nameserver
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 17:17:27 GMT
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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On 25 Feb 1997 14:19:44 -0000, brian@news.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers)
wrote:

>Charles Reese (reese@chem.duke.edu) wrote:
>:  I have setup some dial-in lines using ppp, but when I dial in and
>: start ppp it refuses to use the nameservers.    All works well for
>: connecting to our site with the ppp, but if you try to telnet to some
>: other site directly from the connecting PC you get a 'no DNS entry for
>: ...'
>
>I suspect the "connecting PC" has a bad resolv.conf.
>
>Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@utell.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
>      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
>Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
>-- 
>Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@utell.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
>      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
>Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !

The connecting PC is a Windows machine.  Perhaps my explanation wasn't
clear.  I have:

PC(Windows)---ppp---(My Dialin Site)---(My router)---T1---Digex
(nameservers).

If I dialup from the PC and login to MDS, then run Netscape or FTP I
get 'host not found' errors if I use names.  It works ok with IP
addresses.

If I dialup form the PC, login to MDS and telnet to MDS then I can ftp
to other sites on the Internet using names.  So nameservice works from
MDS but not from the PC.

Also, if dialup another access provider (namely Dukenet), run
Netscape, hang up the line and dial MDS I can continue to use Netscape
with names.

Anyway, its all a bit moot now since I added the line 'enable msext'
to my ppp.conf and it now seems to work, but I sure would like an
explanation.

Thanks
Charlie Reese