Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:28:13 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: opbc@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kppp DNS problem? Message-ID: <54db43990610231328o66ceb794ra878fdd8c5e7c95f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061021133900.si2b8uayg2s4kwww@webmails.hosting-advantage.com> References: <20061021133900.si2b8uayg2s4kwww@webmails.hosting-advantage.com>
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On 10/21/06, opbc@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org <opbc@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org> wrote: > kppp works as advertised, except for one little problem. > > my primary and secondary DNS servers are as follows: > > ns1.hosting.trueband.net > > ns2.hosting.trueband.net > > All well and good - BUT the kppp config untility will only allow > numbers to be entered into the utility! > > Please suffer this ol' burn-out from the 60's some advice. What to > do, where? Your ISP should give you names instead of numbers for their DNS servers. Your system can only use names if it already knows where its DNS servers are, because converting names to numbers is what DNS servers do. Hence, the software only wants numbers. As someone has already posted, the names they gave you resolve to: 64.92.112.162 64.92.112.163 which does not appear to be very robust. It would be nice if at least one of your nameservers was on a different network, in case their network loses connectivity. - Bob
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