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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: DNS configure Date: 23 Apr 1997 09:50:01 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5jkm09$b7n@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <335C2663.64D8D08B@cs.huji.ac.il> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6730 Arie Allen Livshin <allen@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Should I do something special for using a DNS server? You need to write the IP address of your DNS server into /etc/resolv.conf. This file has got a man page. > (Shouldn't such a > server be automatically known after ppp connection?) Normally not. Technically, DNS configuration doesn't belong into the PPP protocol layers. Mickeysoft some time ago decided to put it there, i think they tried to register this protocol extension but it got rejected. Of course, they are Mickeysoft, thus using it anyway. There are now more PPP implementations available featuring this extension, but i don't know whether BSD/OS's PPP does. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j