[ale] Linux ISP Dialing w/ MCI Worldcom

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Actually, they may not be quite all wet.  NT-RAS passes DNS servers'
IP address through the PPP negotiation.  Linux PPPD can support this as 
a server, but not as a client.

pppd version 2.3.7     

       ms-dns <addr>
              If pppd is acting as a server for Microsoft Windows
              clients,  this  option allows pppd to supply one or
              two DNS  (Domain  Name  Server)  addresses  to  the
              clients.   The first instance of this option speci-
              fies the primary DNS address; the  second  instance
              (if  given)  specifies  the  secondary DNS address.
              (This option was present in some older versions  of
              pppd under the name dns-addr.)




Joe Knapka writes:
 > Gene Matthews wrote:
 > > it.  I saw a thread on their support news group (mciworld.users.support)
 > > where someone else asked for the DNS IPs and their reply was that they are
 > > assigned dynamically!  I am familiar, in concept at least, with DHCP, so I
 > > understand that client IPs are assigned dynamically, but if they are trying
 > > to say the DNS IP is assigned dynamically, I think they are all wet.
 > 
 > No, dynamic assignment of DNS servers is possible using DHCP.
 > Check out the man page for dhcpcd; you can find out what
 > DNS server was assigned by reading a file that dhcpcd
 > creates when it acquires the IP address. It also executes
 > a script when stuff changes, so you can automatically
 > rewrite the /etc/resolv.conf file, for example.
 > 
 > -- Joe Knapka
 > * I speak only for myself, except when the little transceiver
 > * at the base of my skull is activated...