well, he mentioned that he's connecting via a cable modem (i do as well). which acts essentially like a lan/wan. i personally have a static ip rather than dhcp, though. so i don't know if their server will assign dns servers upon connection or not w/ linux......
james ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oki DZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:16 PM Subject: Re: Internet Access > > > On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, james nigh wrote: > > > you should still need dns. you should have been given a few dns numbers at some point. > > plug those into /etc/resolv.conf and you should be all set. if you weren't given any, try pasting this in: > > > > nameserver 24.0.224.33 > > nameserver 24.0.224.34 > > If you use pppconfig to setup your ppp connection, then tinkering with > /etc/resolv.conf wouldn't be needed (it will be updated each time you have > an open connection). > > Oki > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
