Dial-up problems

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 10:38:56AM -0700, mistere at rageagainst.net wrote:
> I'm dialing up (blech) from linux using KPPP to an MSN connection.  I
> connect fine, but when i'm on, it takes forever to resolve the host.  Once
> the host is found, the page loads normally, but it can take between 10 and
> 30 seconds to resolve the host!  Anyone have any ideas?  BTW, setting DNS
> to automagic doesn't seem to work at all in kppp, and putting the DNS in
> manually gives me the problems listed above.  I've manually configured a
> dial-up account in windows and it doesn't give me the problem, so it's not
> any magic secret with MSN software.  Thanks in advance for any help.
I don't know what automagic means but kppp overwrites your resolv.conf
file when it connects. Sounds that you don't have the dens servers
properly configured in kppp. Since it is overwriting they must be
defined in the kppp configuration.
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