Arun Khan wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 Jul 2008, Mehul Ved wrote:
>
>> On Tue Jul 01, 2008 at 09:40:50PM +0100, km wrote:
>>
>>> Also, I tried using the OpenDNS service, by using their DNS
>>> server IP addresses, but it still changes back to another set
>>> of DNS ips the moment i disconnect and redial, may be because
>>> we are not assigned any static IPs by Tata Indicom(?)
>>>
>> Does DNS work after using OpenDNS? If yes, then you can add OpenDNS
>> IP's to the required configuration file. I am not sure as to which is
>> that. Maybe you can try the solutions enlisted here -
>> http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=235
>>
>
> km needs to add the opendns entries *after* the connection is
> established. It is being overwritten by DNS supplied by ISP but I
> don't think this is root cause of his problem.
>
>
yes, thats what i had to do in order to use opendns. but as you
rightly pointed out, thats not the root issue here. its still not
resolving.
> I think km needs to verify his routing table as someone else pointed out
> earlier. If he has multiple interfaces like eth0 and ppp0, his earlier
> default route may be interfering even though ppp0 over WLL is
> established.
>
> km, after the connection is established do a:
>
> # route -n
>
> this will give your routing table entries. If the default route is thru
> eth0 then you need to delete it (man route).
>
>
i guess this is what i should give a try, however i have no idea
what a routing table is and how it works. but i do have eth0 and
eth1 attributed to the 2 NICs jacked in, and used eth0 to access
the net for quite sometime before switching to Tata Plug2Surf.
> Alternately, before connecting to Tata, stop your networking
> (/etc/init.d/<network-script-name>), connect to the ISP, this should
> give you a workable routing table.
>
>
err.. any sure-shot way to figure out the <network-script-name> if
i dont know it? and how do we stop it?
Thanks a lot for all the help. :)
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kamal
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