Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:53:58 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net> To: RexFelis <catlord17@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP troubles SOLVED!!! Message-ID: <20030630132358.GA215@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20030630024920.46342.qmail@web40413.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030630024920.46342.qmail@web40413.mail.yahoo.com>
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add the following line in your ppp.conf to get the proper DNS servers from your ISP. enable dns check out 'man ppp' to get more info about it. Regards, Shantanu +-- RexFelis [freebsd] [29-06-03 19:49 -0700]: | Yahoooo! Boy does it feel good to track down and | solve this problem on my own!!! | | Here's what I did. I copied the contents of | /etc/ppp from my Linux partition to my Windows | partition and then compared each corresponding | file to it's freebsd counterpart. And what I | found was that my resolv.conf files were | different - the DNS nameserver address had been | changed under Linux! | | When I plugged in the new number, voila, FreeBSD | connectivity problem solved. | | I am so appreciative for the help, even though I | managed to solve it on my own. I googled it at a | friend's suggestion and discovered a website | giving the info to add, and that brought me to | the idea to do what I did. | | Now to cvsup. :) | | Shannon | | __________________________________ | Do you Yahoo!? | SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! | http://sbc.yahoo.com | | ------------------------------ -- You can look through a file in a nice text-based interface by typing less filename
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