On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 03:03:00PM +0000, Paul Dufresne wrote: > I use a dialup modem to connect to Internet. > I use pppconfig to configured my provider connection. > In advanced setting, nameservers, I have chosen dynamic. > But I need to use /etc/resolv.conf with a nameserver line to be > able to use Internet. > I had forgotten this for a long time, but a recent update (I had this > problem even with stable, but now I use testing, with a bit of > unstable for mono), have made my /etc/resolv.conf become an > empty file, and I had to refill it with nameserver lines. > > I guess I was expecting this to be an obvious bug, that most people would > know > and that would be fixed fastly. But now, I wonder. I have just check in the > bugs for ppp package, and this don't seem to be there. > > I would expect /etc/resolv.conf to have no effect at all, since I can see > in the > logs that my ISP does indeed return DNS information (that's where I took > it to fill my /etc/resolv.conf file), and my provider setting is indeed on > dynamic. > > What should I do with this? If I should fill a bug report, what is the best > package to fill it on?
Choosing dynamic nameservers in pppconfig should mean that you automatically get a new resolv.conf written when the connection comes up. This is done by the script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up which you can follow through and check that it is in fact possible to do what the script wants to do. Also worth checking /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/000usepeerdns which ought to be detecting that you've used pppconfig and leaving all the work to .../0-dns-up. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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