In message <2923.538T5T5211869geohei9@attglobal.net>, "Georges Heinesch" writes
:

>
>But still, even if pppd is doing what it says on the man pages, the
>/etc/resolv.conf DNS servers are used despite the fact that pppd
>queries the remote for its DNS servers and that this one spits them
>out (and pppd stores them in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf). Still, the
>/etc/resolv.conf DNS servers are used, not the /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
>servers.
>
>How can I _easily_ change that?

The easiest way, if you always want the PPP resolvers used, is to lin
/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ppp/resolv.conf together.  What I did was to 
perform surgery on ip-up and ip-down from xisp.  Here they are, if you 
want.  (I'm probably going to change this, since I want to have the 
dhcp-added entries removed when I"m dialed up.)

---- ip-up
#!/bin/sh

# First setup all variables passed on from pppd
#-----------------------------------------------
interface=$1
device=$2
speed=$3
localIP=$4
remoteIP=$5
ipparam=$6
 
# Add lines in /etc/resolv.conf for the DNS entries passed from xisp
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
if [ "$DNS1"x != x ]; then
        echo "nameserver        $DNS1   # xisp primary DNS line" >> /etc/resolv.conf
        echo "Primary DNS: $DNS1"
fi
if [ "$DNS2"x != x ]; then
        echo "nameserver        $DNS2   # xisp secondary DNS line" >> /etc/resolv.conf
        echo "Secondary DNS: $DNS2"
fi


---- ip-down
#!/bin/sh

# First setup all variables passed on from pppd
#-----------------------------------------------
interface=$1
device=$2
speed=$3
localIP=$4
remoteIP=$5
ipparam=$6
 
# Remove the lines in /etc/resolv.conf for the DNS entries passed from xisp
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
umask 022
if [ "$DNS1"x != x ]; then
        grep -v "xisp primary DNS line" /etc/resolv.conf > /etc/resolv.conf.new
        mv -f /etc/resolv.conf.new /etc/resolv.conf
        echo "DNS $DNS1 removed"
fi
if [ "$DNS2"x != x ]; then
        grep -v "xisp secondary DNS line" /etc/resolv.conf > /etc/resolv.conf.ne
w
        mv -f /etc/resolv.conf.new /etc/resolv.conf
        echo "DNS $DNS2 removed"
fi


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb