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[Rene Paulokat <rene AT so36.net>]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:16:44 -0700
Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

> If you want to suggest some troubleshooting for him, go for it.  His 
> resolv.conf is showing opennic nameservers, so what else should he be 
> looking at?  I've never worked with a pppd setup before, so is there 
> another location he should be looking for dns resolvers?  The only thing 
> I can think of is that he gave us a copy of /etc/pppd/resolv.conf, but 
> did not tell us if /etc/resolv.conf also exists (and what the contents 
> of that might be).
[...]

exactly this is the point.
if the machine does not resolve opennic-tlds - this is the place to look at 
at first.

he should do the following:

--- snip ---

rp@tank:~/devel$ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
nameserver 89.246.64.38                         # versatel-dns
rp@tank:~/devel$ ping -c 1 www.opennic.glue
PING www.opennic.glue (89.246.64.39) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from paxweb.versatel-nord.de (89.246.64.39): icmp_req=1 ttl=58 
time=14.1 ms
[...]

rp@tank:~/devel$ sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf       # change your preferred 
resolver here

rp@tank:~/devel$ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
nameserver 178.63.26.173                        # opennic-dns

rp@tank:~/devel$ ping -c 1 www.opennic.glue
PING www.opennic.glue (75.127.96.89) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ns7.jdcomputers.com.au (75.127.96.89): icmp_req=1 ttl=39 
time=127 ms

--- snap ---

bingo!

todo: train your pppd not to change dns.

lg
rene



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