[ale] pppoe and dns and Hellsouth DSL

[bpolk78]

Or you can setup your own caching DNS, just put sometning like:

{
forwarders dns.ip.addr.xxx ........ ;
}
forward first;
its all in the dns howto.

Bert
----- Original Message -----
From: Wylde Bill <dbaron13 at atl.bellsouth.net>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:06 am
Subject: Re: [ale] pppoe and dns and Hellsouth DSL

> John Wells wrote:
> > 
> > I've got Bellsouth DSL connected with Roaring Penguin.
> >  I'm having a problem with DNS lookups.  Bellsouth
> > pushes these addresses to you via the server, so I
> > specified "server" in the RP setup.
> > 
> > Watching /var/log/messages, I can see plainly that
> > these are setup by pppd.  But all pings/dnslookups/etc
> > fail.
> > 
> > Big conceptual gap here....so I don't know exactly how
> > to fix it.  I know resolv.conf typically contains the
> > DNS settings.  How does linux handle it when they're
> > pushed by the server (btw, they're not automatically
> > inserted into /etc/resolv.conf)?
> > 
> > If someone can fill this gap, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Easiest thing to do to avoid all the fun is just to put the hellsouth
> DNS servers in resolv.conf.  Numbers are as follows:  205.152.0.20 and
> 205.152.0.5 .  It works.  *shrug*
> 
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