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#! rnews 2602 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and PPP dialup with Netcom Netcruiser account... Date: 20 Jan 1997 20:57:40 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 40 Message-ID: <5c0m84$q2k@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <pigdogE48q4C.2L9@netcom.com> <5bu0k0$haf@news.fred.net> <pigdogE4A7Mz.K5F@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34015 pigdog@netcom.com (Pigdog from SF Bay) wrote: > ..., so I think my problems lies with the nameserver addresses > in resolve.conf, or the configuration for tun0 in the sysconfig file where > it wants the gateway IP and the netmask, which I do not have for > Netcom. > > Currently, I'm using the following DNS in the resolve.conf: > > 199.182.120.203 > 199.182.120.202 Can't help you on this. Though, any machine on the Internet running a nameserver could basically serve you. If you fail to locate one close to you, why not setting up a (caching-only) nameserver yourself? That's a matter of two minutes: cd /etc/namedb sh make-localhost ...and enable its startup in /etc/sysconfig (with the commented out version of named_flags there). Now, simply delete resolv.conf, or put 127.0.0.1 there. Your server will query the root servers itself then, and cache the answers. If you know of some servers at Netcom, you can also put them as `forwarders' in /etc/namedb/named.boot -- this might speedup the lookups (by participating in their cached results). > And in the /etc/sysconfig file I have the following entry for tun0... Drop it. It serves no purpose. The tun0 interface is only useful in the context of a process running on it (ppp), and this process takes care itself to properly ifconfig the interface. While it is not running, tun0 must be marked down. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)