Perry,

Thanks for the tip... I had to create the resolv.conf myself and find
de DNS addresses from my ISP to put them in there. I thought that this
would be dinamically assigned in an PPPoE setup (like in Windoze), but
*now* I think I got it right.

Thanks agian for your help!


-----Original Message-----
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
To: "Guillermo Cremerius" <guillermo@cremerius.org>
Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 2:58:09 PM
Subject: Newbie question regarding DNS with PPPoE


> "Guillermo Cremerius" <guillermo@cremerius.org> writes:
>> I don't see anything... not even the /etc/resolv.conf file. Who creates
>> this? Should I've done this?

> man resolv.conf

> The /etc/resolv.conf file needs to have a name server listed or none
> of your software will be able to use DNS. You may have to create one
> by hand.

> See also "man nsswitch.conf"

> Perry

>> 
>> Thanks again.
>> 
>> On 10 Feb 2003 20:54:34 -0500, "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
>> said:
>> > 
>> > Guillermo Cremerius <guillermo@cremerius.org> writes:
>> > > I just installed NetBSD/i386 and followed the instructions on "Steps
>> > > to connect via PPPoE". Everything seems to work fine, except the DNS
>> > > setup which is done by the server after I connect.
>> > > 
>> > > I checked with ifconfig pppoe0 and I do have an IP and I do can ping
>> > > that server too, but I can't rsolve any names.
>> > 
>> > Does your /etc/resolv.conf list the server?
>> > 
>> > Perry
>> > 
>> 


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