Subject: Re: pppd cant' assign a remote ip and i'm desperate
On Monday Oct 01 16:41 Sergio E. Schvezov wrote:
> ** Well leaving that out the connection is kind of fine, i can ping,
> ** connect to ICQ servers, but the problem comes up when i try to
> ** do for example
> ** http://www.google.com
> ** In links i'd see something like this:
> ** Recieved 0B of 2.3 kB, avg 0B/s
FAQ - 1 I can ping but get no access to my ISP, why?
Whenever you like to connect to your ISP (using Netscape, dselect,
gtm and something like that), the file /etc/resolv.conf is used,
cause your web tools need to get informations about your ISP.
A simple example for this file:
domain msn
nameserver 193.101.111.20
$ man resolv.conf
RESOLVER(5) RESOLVER(5)
NAME
resolver - resolver configuration file
SYNOPSIS
/etc/resolv.conf
DESCRIPTION
The resolver is a set of routines in the C library that
provide access to the Internet Domain Name System. The
resolver configuration file contains information that is
read by the resolver routines the first time they are
invoked by a process. The file is designed to be human
readable and contains a list of keywords with values that
provide various types of resolver information.
On a normally configured system this file should not be
necessary. The only name server to be queried will be on
the local machine, the domain name is determined from the
host name, and the domain search path is constructed from
the domain name.
The different configuration options are:
nameserver
Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server
that the resolver should query. Up to MAXNS (cur
rently 3) name servers may be listed, one per key
word. If there are multiple servers, the resolver
library queries them in the order listed. If no
nameserver entries are present, the default is to
use the name server on the local machine. (The
algorithm used is to try a name server, and if the
query times out, try the next, until out of name
servers, then repeat trying all the name servers
until a maximum number of retries are made).
domain Local domain name. Most queries for names within
this domain can use short names relative to the
local domain. If no domain entry is present, the
domain is determined from the local host name
returned by gethostname(); the domain part is taken
to be everything after the first `.'. Finally, if
the host name does not contain a domain part, the
root domain is assumed.
search Search list for host-name lookup. The search list
is normally determined from the local domain name;
by default, it contains only the local domain name.
This may be changed by listing the desired domain
search path following the search keyword with
spaces or tabs separating the names. Most resolver
queries will be attempted using each component of
the search path in turn until a match is found.
Note that this process may be slow and will gener
ate a lot of network traffic if the servers for the
listed domains are not local, and that queries will
time out if no server is available for one of the
domains.
The search list is currently limited to six domains
with a total of 256 characters.
sortlist
Sortlist allows addresses returned by gethostbyname
to be sorted. A sortlist is specified by IP
address netmask pairs. The netmask is optional and
defaults to the natural netmask of the net. The IP
address and optional network pairs are separated by
slashes. Up to 10 pairs may be specified.
e.g. sortlist 130.155.160.0/255.255.240.0
130.155.0.0
options
Options allows certain internal resolver variables
to be modified. The syntax is
options option ...
where option is one of the following:
debug -- sets RES_DEBUG in _res.options.
ndots:n -- sets a threshold for the number of dots
which must appear in a name given to res_query (see
resolver(3)) before an initial absolute query will
be made. The default for _n is ``1'', meaning that
if there are any dots in a name, the name will be
tried first as an absolute name before any search
list elements are appended to it.
The domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive. If
more than one instance of these keywords is present, the
last instance wins.
The search keyword of a system's resolv.conf file can be
overridden on a per-process basis by setting the environ
ment variable ``LOCALDOMAIN'' to a space-separated list of
search domains.
The options keyword of a system's resolv.conf file can be
amended on a per-process basis by setting the environment
variable ``RES_OPTIONS'' to a space-separated list of
resolver options as explained above under options.
The keyword and value must appear on a single line, and
the keyword (e.g. nameserver) must start the line. The
value follows the keyword, separated by white space.
FILES
/etc/resolv.conf
SEE ALSO
gethostbyname(3), hostname(7), named(8),
Name Server Operations Guide for BIND
Debian GNU/Linux 1993-11-11 RESOLVER(5)
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