kppp DNS problem?
Hello to all, It's been about 5 years since I've posted to this list (back then it was newbies). I'm using freeBSD 4.2; KDE on X. kppp works as advertised, except for one little problem. my primary and secondary DNS servers are as follows: ns1.hosting.trueband.net ns2.hosting.trueband.net All well and good - BUT the kppp config untility will only allow numbers to be entered into the utility! Please suffer this ol' burn-out from the 60's some advice. What to do, where? Thank you in advance. Z. Wade Hampton Sheridan, Montana ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kppp DNS problem?
On 10/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my primary and secondary DNS servers are as follows: ns1.hosting.trueband.net ns2.hosting.trueband.net All well and good - BUT the kppp config untility will only allow numbers to be entered into the utility! try in console or terminal : host ns1.hosting.trueband.net and host ns2.hosting.trueband.net ( here are my results : ) ns1.hosting.trueband.net has address 64.92.113.1 ns2.hosting.trueband.net has address 64.92.114.1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kppp DNS problem?
On 10/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kppp works as advertised, except for one little problem. my primary and secondary DNS servers are as follows: ns1.hosting.trueband.net ns2.hosting.trueband.net All well and good - BUT the kppp config untility will only allow numbers to be entered into the utility! Please suffer this ol' burn-out from the 60's some advice. What to do, where? Your ISP should give you names instead of numbers for their DNS servers. Your system can only use names if it already knows where its DNS servers are, because converting names to numbers is what DNS servers do. Hence, the software only wants numbers. As someone has already posted, the names they gave you resolve to: 64.92.112.162 64.92.112.163 which does not appear to be very robust. It would be nice if at least one of your nameservers was on a different network, in case their network loses connectivity. - Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
