Paul Lussier wrote:
> >Farrell Woods wrote:
> >> ms-dns
> It *appears* that the 'usepeerdns' setting is what you want:
>
> usepeerdns
> Ask the peer for up to 2 DNS server addresses. The
> addresses supplied by the peer (if any) are passed
> to the /etc/ppp/ip-up script in the environment
> variables DNS1 and DNS2. In addition, pppd will
> create an /etc/ppp/resolv.conf file containing one
> or two nameserver lines with the address(es) sup�
> plied by the peer.
This looks more like it. As was pointed out, ms-dns is the "server"
side part of the hack (supplies 1 or 2 server IP addresses during
IPCP.)
The basic issue this attempts to fix is that no one really does DHCP
over IP/PPP... Another solution is that ISP's could set up their
PPP peers to be forwarding DNS servers (they have to funnel all
the packets from the home peers anyway...)
There's an informational RFC that describes the M$ hack for passing
DNS server addresses during IPCP. This is what pppd implements.
The PPP working group was never happy about this solution, which
is why the RFC remains "informational".
-- Farrell
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