From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 2 17:51:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F377D16A4EA for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 17:51:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8A943D49 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 17:51:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so1815710pye for ; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=Ed/cjwT3ZgKJzalu+yJVWpgLo7NXv5Go23vxkpDOaL9l92/eXhnCjWyDPB/HDKmoGAdGVGqnb821WUAq6pP/Hnv9ssKXjyra33nxrqOfxxtfTH09nc34e0uYY0mZrdczU5f59s+j1RYA+U0GeVHtf/8H4gEY+Pztl7CRKqmxOn4= Received: by 10.35.49.1 with SMTP id b1mr5839660pyk; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.44.12 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <340a29540609021051n50bc066bj63f192f9890f8e5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:51:40 -0600 From: "Andrew Falanga" To: freebsd-questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Having trouble getting ppp configured on my 6.1 box X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:51:54 -0000 Hello everyone, I had to blow away my 6.0 installation and simply install 6.1 release. I found out that I would have to update my ports manually and since I don't have high speed access to the Internet, this just wasn't feasible. So, after installing (which went smoothly) I'm getting everything working. I remembered all my configuration files, or so I thought, except for the ppp.conf file that I was using. I remember having this problem when I installed 6.0 but unfortunately, I can't remember how to fix it. This is really embarrasing. ppp works and all, but I can't resolve any DNS hostnames. Everytime I try, I get something like "no address associated to the name." Or something similar. Sorry, I'm writing this mail from the Windows OS (one computer shares the two OS's) and I don't recall the error exactly but that's basically it. I was reading through the handbook and the ppp manual page and have tried a few different things, but haven't gotten it to work as yet. I called my ISP to get the nameserver addresses to put in /etc/resolv.conf, and have confirmed that with "enable dns" in ppp that ppp is updating the resolv.conffile. However, I'm still unable to resolve DNS hostnames. What's the magic that I must perform to make this work? Thanks, Andy