Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Unfortunately, this doesnt work at all well with my dial up. There are > a number of programs that dont seem to use /etc/hosts (netscape being > one, but not in all cases it seems, which confuses matters). On my > internal network, I often have to use IP for some programs, whereas > others are happy with hostnames. What do your /etc/host* files look like? And when you say that you have to use IP for some programs, do you mean that machines on your internal network can't access external resources without using the IP number (probably a problem with the machines on your internal network - where are they looking for DNS lookups, and is where they're looking a valid address?) or that you have to use IP numbers to access machines on your internal network from your Linux box (probably a problem with the /etc/host* files). Or something else? > The current Mandrake default cacheing > DNS and kppp seem particularly brain dead - my /etc/resolve file fills > up with kppp entries (one each for the ISP primary and secondary DNS, > and never deletes them, so it just gets larger! I think you can fix this by going into linuxconf, Networking, PPP/SLIP/PLIP, ppp0, Networking, and unselecting 'Use the DNS of the provider'. After this, PPP sessions shouldn't alter /etc/resolv.conf at all, just use the DNS entries that are already there. There does seem to be some bug with this feature, where DNS entries are added but not removed if it's selected. Doesn't seem to effect DNS lookups for me, but yeah, the file just keeps getting bigger. Potentially quite a nice feature, but it doesn't seem to work properly for me. > And then there's the > problem with default route for kppp not overriding the system one set > after bootup without manual intervention ... I think this is actually how things are meant to work, kppp shouldn't override the default route unless it's specifically told to. Again, go into linuxconf, ppp0 and check that under the Networking tab 'Set default route' is selected. Personally I don't like kppp much, I prefer to use scripts and 'ifup ppp0', but I think that in 7.2 kppp should load the settings that have been set up by linuxconf. > 7.1 seemed a much more stable setup for dialup I think that it's a matter of working out how to do stuff in 7.2. There are certainly some differences... :-) Hope this is of some help, Tom Massey
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