Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd [SOLVED-sorta]

2012-03-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes those to /etc/resolv.conf This is at the top of /etc/resolv.conf #

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd [SOLVED-sorta]

2012-03-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same strong suspicion Bill and YoYo have... DNS is likely not getting set properly in /etc/resolv.conf I always assumed that DHCP was writing this file automatically, so I never checked, but this time I made sure to check and viola!

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread Dale
Maxim Wexler wrote: This brings back nightmares. It's been a while since I used dial-up but this sounds like a permissions issue. Check /etc/group and see if you are in ALL the following groups: tty uucp dialout utmp They're all in the file, if that's what you mean. You can also

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 Mar 2012 03:00:50 Maxim Wexler wrote: This brings back nightmares. It's been a while since I used dial-up but this sounds like a permissions issue. Check /etc/group and see if you are in ALL the following groups: tty uucp dialout utmp They're all in the file,

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Wednesday 21 Mar 2012 08:59:18 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 21 Mar 2012 03:00:50 Maxim Wexler wrote: This brings back nightmares. It's been a while since I used dial-up but this sounds like a permissions issue. Check /etc/group and see if you are in ALL the following groups:

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same strong suspicion Bill and YoYo have... DNS is likely not getting set properly in /etc/resolv.conf I always assumed that DHCP was writing this file automatically,

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Doesn't 40-dns apply only if the 'usepeerdns' option is set. As far as I can tell that option is not set. Maybe it should be. On 3/21/12, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
oh wait...it's set in /etc/ppp/peers/provider On 3/21/12, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't 40-dns apply only if the 'usepeerdns' option is set. As far as I can tell that option is not set. Maybe it should be. On 3/21/12, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Tue, Mar 20,

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread YoYo Siska
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:33:27AM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Just got back from gentoo land. Arrrgh, gmail won't let me attach files, just sits there spinning. So I'll have to make do with pastebin. http://paste.ubuntu.com/890854/ hmm, pppd seems to bring the connection up ok and

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread Maxim Wexler
yoyo Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from the boot console and ran pon isp without touching anything else, and

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: yoyo Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. Just for the heck of it I made myself root

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread Dale
Maxim Wexler wrote: yoyo Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from the boot console and ran pon isp without

[gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
Just got back from gentoo land. Arrrgh, gmail won't let me attach files, just sits there spinning. So I'll have to make do with pastebin. http://paste.ubuntu.com/890854/ Is a chronicle of the commands entered. First having booted and not changing anything, I do #ifconifg, then I do #route -n,

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-19 Thread wdk@moriah
Have you checked it's not DNA related? - used IP numbers rather than urls in pings etc? Try panga/trace route to upstream IPs. BillK On 20/03/2012, at 0:33, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Just got back from gentoo land. Arrrgh, gmail won't let me attach files, just sits