On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:20:49PM -0400, Dan Radovsky wrote: > Up until last week I've had no problems connecting to the internet on my > debian 2.2r3/toshiba laptop via eth0 using a dhcp client with my home dsl. > But > since I began using ppp to make a dialup connection at my office (which works > just fine), I just cannot now get a remote server whenever I connect to the > dsl. I can ping to my gateway dsl router and beyond, as long as I know the > dotted quad address. But any names just don't get resolved. I've check every > resolv.conf I can find, but they all seem to be okay. I'm somewhat confident > it's just a configuration thing -- but I wouldn't bet my life on it. Any > hints?
Are you running nscd - name service cache daemon? If so it may have cached your ppp settings. Try "/etc/init.d/nscd restart" after switching to dsl.