Re: Getting free ISP's to work
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On 27 May 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> > the problem is that I need the DNS nameservers (or at least with
>
> The ISP you signed up with can probably provide you with the IPs of their
> nameservers.
'man pppd' reports:
usepeerdns
Ask the peer for up to 2 DNS server addresses. The
addresses supplied by the peer (if any) are passed
to the /etc/ppp/ip-up script in the environment
variables DNS1 and DNS2. In addition, pppd will
create an /etc/ppp/resolv.conf file containing one
or two nameserver lines with the address(es) sup
plied by the peer.
The ppp changelog indicates that this feature has been available since
version ppp-2.3.7. The version in 'potato' is ppp-2.3.11.
Debian's pppconfig prompts you for dynamic DNS which utilizes this
feature.
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Gerard MacNeil, P. Eng macneil@supercity.ns.ca
System Administrator
Supercity Internet Services http://www.supercity.ns.ca
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