basic question - internet access using ppp - Red Hat Linux 7. 0

[Philip, Anil]

I tried putting in the dns i.p.s in /etc/resolv.conf
It seems to work. A few minutes ago, I tried pinging from linux again -
now there is a 0% packet loss and I can surf the web!
thanks so much for the help!
Anil.
BTW glorb.com seems to be a good isp. $17/month for speedy V90 ppp access.
10Mb web space, and a linux shell account. 

-----Original Message-----
From: jim [mailto:jim at jimani.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:55 PM
To: Philip, Anil
Subject: Re: basic question - internet access using ppp - Red Hat Linux
7. 0

Anil,

I just played with pppd and the usepeerdns option and I have not been able
to get pppd to create a /etc/resolv.conf file as the man page says it will.
It will, however, ask my ISP for two dns IPs and pass them to /etc/ppp/ip-up
as environment variables DNS1 and DNS2.  This is probably a better way to
work because it will allow me to build /etc/resolv.conf the way I want.  If
you decide to try to build /etc/resolv.conf this way you should put your
script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local.  The Red Hat distribution is set up to have
/etc/ppp/ip-up do some housekeeping and then call /etc/ppp/ip-up.local with
all the parameters and environment stuff with which it was called.

Hope this helps.
--
Jim