On Friday 08 February 2002 01:26 pm, Mark Sweeting wrote: [snip] > Thanks for the suggestions so far. Yes, I do have ppp > installed, pppd is up and running, and it appears all > the packages needed are installed. Syslog doesn't show > any errors -- it shows that everything coming up in > order. As I said, the routing table looks OK - there > is an entry for my local network and for the rest of > the world through ppp0. /etc/resolve.conf looks OK > too, it has the new name servers in (though the > origional one on my local network gets removed. Will > this upset the internet side of things?). >
why or how is your /etc/resolv.conf being overwritten? you might want to post the two different versions to see if anyone can detect a flaw. can you ping localhost?