BTW, not only it would have to be able to choose the right resolv.conf file,
but also the right pap-secrets file, I believe... or I think there's a way
of writing different userIDs and passwords in pap-secrets... ?
You must have missed the earlier part of the thread. Supposedly,
pppconfig
will
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
At present there is no simple way to use a different set of nameservers
with each ISP.
So, that means there is a non simple way of using 2+ different ISPs... if
so, how? and, could you explain it to me step by step, please?
BTW, not only it would have to be able to
Horacio writes:
So, that means there is a non simple way of using 2+ different ISPs... if
so, how? and, could you explain it to me step by step, please?
This a cheap hack, off the top of my head and untested.
Use pppconfig to set up named providers ispA, ispB, and ispC, in addition
to
I avoid the problem of a separate /etc/resolv.conf for each of my ISP's
by never using my ISP's DNS servers.
I found that DNS lookups to my local ISP took as long as lookups to the
the main internet DNS servers A through M, about 4 seconds.
So, I run a local DNS server, and I have but one entry
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Ben Collins writes:
What does this [resolv.conf] have to do with policy?
Packages are not to mess with other packages' conffiles. We had a long and
inclusive discussion of this on debian-devel earlier this year. There are
also technical
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 01:21:25PM +, David Wright wrote:
I'm not sure which package owns resolv.conf, but it does appear that
pcmcia-cs is quite happy to mangle it (with /etc/pcmcia/network). Could ppp
not do the same sort of thing? (and apologies if more knowledgable people
have their
Ben Collins writes:
dpkg -S /etc/resolv.conf shows no ownership. I think this would be best
handled with a sample script that could be included with the pppd
package. This script could be dropped into ip-up.d by the user at their
discretion.
Getting anything into the ppp package seems to
I like your script (I used to something very similar), but I have since
modified mine to use the PPP_IPPARAM feature of later pppd's. In my
/etc/ppp/peers/ispX file I just add the ipparam option which is passed to
the ip-up/ip-down scripts. It made my life a bunch esier than trying to
figure
AJ writes:
hey i was wondering if when u did 'pppconfig' and created a new ppp
account if u can specify what /etc/recolve.conf file u want cause i have
access to a few ISPs around here that use different primary/secondary dns
entries..
At present there is no simple way to use a
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 06:40:32PM +0100, Marco Frattola wrote:
..
/etc/resolv.cont.ispN
and symlink one of them to /etc/resolv.conf when a call is made to the isp
(HUPing named, of course)?
You don't even have to HUP named since it is libc that uses resolv.conf
for gethostbyname(). if he
wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called
/etc/resolv.cont.isp1
/etc/resolv.cont.isp2
..
There is a script that deals with this very problem as part of the
ppp kit for NetBSD.
It resolves this issue not by linking to, but by copying the proper
resolv.conf for that connection to
Marco Frattola writes:
wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called
/etc/resolv.cont.isp1
/etc/resolv.cont.isp2
..
/etc/resolv.cont.ispN
and symlink one of them to /etc/resolv.conf when a call is made to the isp
Sure. That'll work fine for you. The problem is with Debian
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 09:56:58AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marco Frattola writes:
wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called
/etc/resolv.cont.isp1
/etc/resolv.cont.isp2
..
/etc/resolv.cont.ispN
and symlink one of them to /etc/resolv.conf when a call is made to
you guys have been a lot of help but how would i go about symlinking these? im
not
new to linux.. but i still consider myself a newbie in linux..
sorry for the ignorance :-(
AJ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marco Frattola writes:
wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called
Ben Collins writes:
What does this [resolv.conf] have to do with policy?
Packages are not to mess with other packages' conffiles. We had a long and
inclusive discussion of this on debian-devel earlier this year. There are
also technical issues having to do with the fact that a package that
To create symlinks:
ln -s source target
In a message dated 12/7/98 1:53:50 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
you guys have been a lot of help but how would i go about symlinking these?
im not
new to linux.. but i still consider myself a newbie in linux..
sorry for the
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 01:27:37PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Collins writes:
What does this [resolv.conf] have to do with policy?
Packages are not to mess with other packages' conffiles. We had a long and
inclusive discussion of this on debian-devel earlier this year. There are
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 02:53:08PM -0500, AJ wrote:
you guys have been a lot of help but how would i go about symlinking these?
im not
Marco Frattola writes:
wouldn't it be possibile to make a bunch of files, called
/etc/resolv.cont.isp1
/etc/resolv.cont.isp2
..
hey i was wondering if when u did 'pppconfig' and created a new ppp
account if u can specify what /etc/recolve.conf file u want cause i have
access to a few ISPs around here that use different primary/secondary
dns entries..
So is there any file i can edit to specify what file i want to use?
AJ
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 11:45:47AM -0500, AJ wrote:
hey i was wondering if when u did 'pppconfig' and created a new ppp
account if u can specify what /etc/recolve.conf file u want cause i have
access to a few ISPs around here that use different primary/secondary
dns entries..
So is there any
AJ writes:
hey i was wondering if when u did 'pppconfig' and created a new ppp
account if u can specify what /etc/recolve.conf file u want cause i have
access to a few ISPs around here that use different primary/secondary dns
entries..
At present there is no simple way to use a different set
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