On Sunday 01 July 2001 12:17, Ashwin D wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2001 09:37, you wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I use VSNL and DIshnet dial up services. Both were working fine until a
> > couple of weeks back when Dishnet gave up on me.
> >
> > I am able to connecct to Dishnet but nnot browse. I get unknown host /
> > unable to connect to remote host errors. I presumed Dishnet's DNS is
> > down, so i set /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/ppp/resolv.conf to VSNLs DNS.
> > This did not work. Nor did settign these in KPPP make any difference.
> >
> > I checked with Windoze and Dishnet seems to work perfectly there - with
> > the same DNS servers ie 202.9.145.6 / 7
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions on what i can try ?
>
> OK, i dont know what solved this - but I emptied /etc/resolv.conf and
> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf and removed usepeerdns from /etc/ppp/options, changed
> DNS to 202.9.128.7 and .6
>
> One /combi of the above set it right and dishnet is now back in business.
Most likely it's the usepeerdns. I think maybe they misconfigured their ppp
and the remote ppp daemon was passing you the wrong DNS IP. That explains why
a modification in the /etc/resolv.conf would have been fruitless.
-Faisal.
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