Subject: Re[2]: Newbie question regarding DNS with PPPoE
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Guillermo Cremerius <guillermo@cremerius.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/12/2003 02:27:16
Robert,

I had to create the resolv.conf manually... this is not a DHCP setup,
it's PPPoE and I thought it would have been assigned dinamically
during IP negotiation... but it works now.

Thanks for your help!


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
To: "Guillermo Cremerius" <guillermo@cremerius.org>
Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 10:16:24 AM
Subject: Newbie question regarding DNS with PPPoE

>     Date:        Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:01:08 -0300
>     From:        "Guillermo Cremerius" <guillermo@cremerius.org>
>     Message-ID:  <20030211130108.9EA9A225B6@www.fastmail.fm>

>   | not even the /etc/resolv.conf file. Who creates this?

> Depends how your address was assigned.   If it came from DHCP
> (you have dhclient=YES in /etc/rc.conf) then it should get created
> automatically.

> If you're assigning addresses manually, you need to create resolv.conf
> manually as well.

> If you were relying on sysinst setting up network configuration for you,
> then don't, it doesn't do a very good job.

> kre



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