Re: Hardware detection ?

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From: Vikram V Asrani
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:00

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In ahn.tech.linux no()ne <SomeGuy@microsoft.nsa.gov> wrote:

=> Call up your ISP and ask them for the IP to their DNS server. Then open up
=> linuxconfig and put that IP in under DNS server... (Though ISP's are being
=> user's.) Speaking of which, you might want to bring it up when you call them 

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. 

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Vikram.V.Asrani (vikram@eecs.umich.edu)

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From: Vikram V Asrani <vikram@eecs.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Hardware detection ?
Date: 2000/05/13
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