Dial-up problems

Botoaca Andrei warlock_ba at hotmail.com
Mon Jul 5 05:05:58 UTC 2004


No, its smtg wrong with KPPP and/or dhcp. If i use the "Network Device 
Configuration" to dial-up then everything works ok ... i signaled this "bug" 
already, but noone answered to it .... So until someone does ... we wait.

>From: akonstam at trinity.edu
>Reply-To: akonstam at trinity.edu,For users of Fedora Core releases 
><fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Dial-up problems
>Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 15:54:40 -0500
>
>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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