[ale] vpn and dns

[Wandered Inn]

I appreciate the response, but I'm hoping there's a better solution.  I
know that M$ will do the dhcp thing, so this must be possible with
Linux.  I've heard you can modify /etc/resolv.conf on the fly, and I
guess this is what I'll need to do.  I guess I'll give that a shot.

Then again, the only thing I'm using my isps dns for is to locate the
vpn server.  I could stick it into the /etc/hosts file and then leave
the /etc/resolv.conf static.

"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:
> 
> Wandered Inn wrote:
> >
> > Anyone using any type of vpn with Linux?  How do I set the dns server
> > values?  Can you have different DNS for different interfaces?
> >
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> > The
> > latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
> > hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
> > intelligence."
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> 
> I've got a VPN running between my home in TX and my employer's
> site in Atlanta, using PPP-over-SSH. Or at least I did until
> recently; I think the nazi M$ network admins in Atlanta
> discovered my Red Hat VPN server lurking on their network and
> took it out and shot it :-(
> 
> Anyway, I had to set up a forward-only DNS server on the Atlanta end
> of the link, because they wouldn't add a route for my net to the real
> DNS server. I'm not aware of a way to make a particular name request
> use particular DNS server; I just listed my forward-only one second
> in /etc/resolv.conf and that worked pretty well (especially since I
> also have a caching DNS server on my local firewall -- I only had
> to wait for the very first attempt for each Atlanta name to
> timeout on my ISP's DNS server and go to my forward-only server
> in Atlanta).
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
intelligence."
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