[ale] pppoe and dns and Hellsouth DSL

bpolk78 bpolk78 at telstra.com
Tue Dec 11 00:47:10 EST 2001



Add it to named.conf
----- Original Message -----
From: bpolk78 <bpolk78 at telstra.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:39 pm
Subject: Re: [ale] pppoe and dns and Hellsouth DSL

> 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>
> 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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