In a message dated: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 20:58:28 EST
"Kenneth E. Lussier" said:
>Farrell Woods wrote:
>> Some versions of pppd support this hack actually. Dunno about what
>> they ship in Mandrake... Last time I looked (roughly three or so
>> years ago) there was a compile-time switch that turned it on. Then
>> you'd put this into your /etc/ppp/options file:
>>
>> ms-dns
>
>Are you saying that if I put that switch in my CLIENT /etc/ppp/options
>file that the client machine will get the DNS servers assigned just like
>a Winblows box would? I may need to try this out then. I've been all
>through the ppp docs to figure out how to assign DNS servers to a Linux
>box.
It *appears* that the 'usepeerdns' setting is what you want:
usepeerdns
Ask the peer for up to 2 DNS server addresses. The
addresses supplied by the peer (if any) are passed
to the /etc/ppp/ip-up script in the environment
variables DNS1 and DNS2. In addition, pppd will
create an /etc/ppp/resolv.conf file containing one
or two nameserver lines with the address(es) sup
plied by the peer.
I may be wrong, and have never used this option to ppp, having always elected
to hardcode my /etc/resolv.conf file myself. Though this option seems to
offer a nice variable alternative :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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