Re: [Sheflug] A basic (hopefully) question

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Sat, 27 May 2000, Neil R Porter wrote:
>Dear Linuxers
>
>I am having a basic problem here.  I've installed mandrake 7 and configured
>KPPP to dial-up np.  I have an account with screaming.net and they insist on
>having a Server assigned IP address and a Server assigned name server
>address.  Since I can't seem to get netscape and Kmail to work I assume it
>is because I haven't got the nameservers set up correctly.  Is there a way
>to find out these addresses OR a way to get linux to be 'server assigned'.
>I am still a dual booter btw so I have access to all things win98se for the
>mo.

Add usepeerdns to your pppd arguments in kppp (or put this word on a line by
itself in /etc/ppp/options).

Now connect as usual. You can now find the DNS nameservers for your ISP in two
places. They are reported in /var/log/messages, so have a look at the last few
lines of that file. Also you can find a model for
/etc/resolv.conf in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. So you can either copy the nameserver
addresses into kppp or you can directly write them into /etc/resolv.conf
yourself.

atb

Martin
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1mph



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