it affects me too, a connect without getting dns looks like this in /var/log/messages:
Dec 20 12:49:04 karlrt-laptop pppd[1426]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pppd-plugin.so loaded. Dec 20 12:49:04 karlrt-laptop pppd[1426]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Dec 20 12:49:04 karlrt-laptop pppd[1426]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 20 12:49:04 karlrt-laptop pppd[1426]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0 Dec 20 12:49:04 karlrt-laptop pppd[1426]: CHAP authentication succeeded Dec 20 12:49:04 karlrt-laptop pppd[1426]: CHAP authentication succeeded Dec 20 12:49:04 karlrt-laptop kernel: [ 9041.125368] PPP BSD Compression module registered Dec 20 12:49:04 karlrt-laptop kernel: [ 9041.158150] PPP Deflate Compression module registered Dec 20 12:49:13 karlrt-laptop pppd[1426]: Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to 10.64.64.XX Dec 20 12:49:13 karlrt-laptop pppd[1426]: local IP address 77.117.XX.XX Dec 20 12:49:13 karlrt-laptop pppd[1426]: remote IP address 10.64.XX.XX while sometimes, about 1/4 of all the connectings, this happens and it get the dns: Dec 20 12:51:55 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pppd-plugin.so loaded. Dec 20 12:51:55 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Dec 20 12:51:55 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 20 12:51:55 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0 Dec 20 12:51:55 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: CHAP authentication succeeded Dec 20 12:51:55 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: CHAP authentication succeeded Dec 20 12:51:59 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to 10.64.XX.XX Dec 20 12:51:59 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: local IP address 77.119.XX.XX Dec 20 12:51:59 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: remote IP address 10.64.XX.XX Dec 20 12:51:59 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: primary DNS address 213.94.XX.XX Dec 20 12:51:59 karlrt-laptop pppd[5788]: secondary DNS address 213.94.XX.XX -- Missing DNS addresses --- Huawei E160E---Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498110 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
