On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > > > Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same strong > > suspicion Bill and YoYo have... DNS is likely not getting set properly > > in /etc/resolv.conf > > I always assumed that DHCP was writing this file automatically, so I > never checked, but this time I made sure to check and viola! there > they were.
with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes those to /etc/resolv.conf > > > "saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu" ... > > did that include dropping them into place on the Gentoo side > > naturlich > > MW > yoyo