Re: Hardware detection ?

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From: Bryan Jackson
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 00:00

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"Brian" <subdude@post.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Vikram:
>
> Vikram V Asrani wrote in message <8fk5j1$i9s$1@news.eecs.umich.edu>...
> >How do some of the ISP's (most of the free ones) work without DNS
settings
> ?
> >When I had to configure my linux machine, I had searched a lot of sites
but
> >most of mentioned that DNS settings are automatic. I finally found one
with
> >DNS settins and which ran ppp.
>
>
> Most ISPs pass their DNS nameserver IP addresses to the client through
PPP.
>
> Check out pppd man page;
>
> man pppd <enter>
>
> Look for "usepeerdns" - place this directive in your /etc/ppp/options
files.
>
> Create a symbolic link from /etc/ppp/resolv.conf to /etc/resolv.conf like
> this;
>
> touch /etc/ppp/resolv.conf <enter>
>
> ln -s /etc/ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf <enter>
>
> When ppp connects it creates dns entries in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf which are
> symbolically linked to /etc/resolv.conf - the standard Linux position for
> this file.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian
>
Personally I use my old isp's DNS
167.142.225.3

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Subject: Re: Hardware detection ?
Date: 2000/05/28
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