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 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! there >> they were. > > 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 > >> >> > "saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu" ... >> > did that include dropping them into place on the Gentoo side >> >> naturlich >> >> MW >> > > yoyo > >
