oh wait...it's set in /etc/ppp/peers/<provider>
On 3/21/12, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wex...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Doesn't 40-dns apply only if the 'usepeerdns' option is set. As far as
> I can tell that option is not set. Maybe it should be.
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> On 3/21/12, YoYo Siska <y...@gl.ksp.sk> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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
>>>
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>> yoyo
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