Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd [SOLVED-sorta]

2012-03-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes thos

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd [SOLVED-sorta]

2012-03-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> >>> with ppp connections you are not using a dhcp client, pppd gets the >>> nameserver ip addressess as part of the connection negotiation (if >>> peerdns is set) and the aforemetioned script in >>> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh writes those to /etc/resolv.conf This is at the top of /etc/resolv.co

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2012-03-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
oh wait...it's set in /etc/ppp/peers/ On 3/21/12, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Doesn't 40-dns apply only if the 'usepeerdns' option is set. As far as > I can tell that option is not set. Maybe it should be. > > > > > On 3/21/12, YoYo Siska wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexle

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Doesn't 40-dns apply only if the 'usepeerdns' option is set. As far as I can tell that option is not set. Maybe it should be. On 3/21/12, YoYo Siska wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > >> > Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same

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2012-03-21 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:09:06PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > > > Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same strong > > suspicion Bill and YoYo have... DNS is likely not getting set properly > > in /etc/resolv.conf > > I always assumed that DHCP was writing this file autom

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2012-03-21 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 21 Mar 2012 08:59:18 Mick wrote: >> On Wednesday 21 Mar 2012 03:00:50 Maxim Wexler wrote: This brings back nightmares. It's been a while since I used dial-up but this sounds like a permissions issue. Check /etc/group and see if you are in ALL the followin

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2012-03-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 Mar 2012 03:00:50 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > This brings back nightmares. It's been a while since I used dial-up but > > this sounds like a permissions issue. Check /etc/group and see if you > > are in ALL the following groups: > > > > tty > > uucp > > dialout > > utmp > > They're

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2012-03-21 Thread Dale
Maxim Wexler wrote: >> >> This brings back nightmares. It's been a while since I used dial-up but >> this sounds like a permissions issue. Check /etc/group and see if you >> are in ALL the following groups: >> >> tty >> uucp >> dialout >> utmp > > They're all in the file, if that's what you mean

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2012-03-20 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > Since route and other things *are* getting set, I have the same strong > suspicion Bill and YoYo have... DNS is likely not getting set properly > in /etc/resolv.conf I always assumed that DHCP was writing this file automatically, so I never checked, but this time I made sure to check and viola

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2012-03-20 Thread Dale
Maxim Wexler wrote: >> >> yoyo > > Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is > OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from > ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. > > Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from the boot console > and ran pon w

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> >> yoyo > > Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is > OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from > ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. > > Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from t

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2012-03-20 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > yoyo Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from the boot console and ran pon without touching anything else, and b

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-20 Thread YoYo Siska
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:33:27AM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Just got back from gentoo land. > > Arrrgh, gmail won't let me attach files, just sits there spinning. > > So I'll have to make do with pastebin. > > http://paste.ubuntu.com/890854/ hmm, pppd seems to bring the connection up ok a

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2012-03-19 Thread wdk@moriah
Have you checked it's not DNA related? - used IP numbers rather than urls in pings etc? Try panga/trace route to upstream IPs. BillK On 20/03/2012, at 0:33, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Just got back from gentoo land. > > Arrrgh, gmail won't let me attach files, just sits there spinning. > > So

[gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd

2012-03-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
Just got back from gentoo land. Arrrgh, gmail won't let me attach files, just sits there spinning. So I'll have to make do with pastebin. http://paste.ubuntu.com/890854/ Is a chronicle of the commands entered. First having booted and not changing anything, I do #ifconifg, then I do #route -n, t