On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:23:03AM +0300, Alexey wrote: > There is a dnsutils package in Debian. Is contains some utilities. > Is it a Debian-specific software? > > I can connect to the provider, run pppd. There appears resolv.conf with > "nameserver..." lines. I can ping those servers, and it's possible to > browse www pages like this: "http://194.180.244.2/index.htm". > How to enable domain names? What program is responsible for that?
you have to put the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf You can get them with "usepeerdns" in your pppd options. Just hit man pppd I'm not sure if they get added to /etc/resolv.conf automatically but according to the man page they will be put in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf Hope this helps a bit, Adam