cannot find canonical DNS on slmodem PPP connection

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 12.12.2005 schrieb Globe Trotter um 7:27:

> > > --> PPP negotiation detected.
> > > --> Starting pppd at Sat Dec 10 18:00:49 2005
> > > --> pid of pppd: 2704
> > > --> Using interface ppp0
> > > --> local  IP address 61.2.0.216
> > > --> remote IP address 61.0.128.83
> > > --> primary   DNS address 61.0.128.65
> > > --> secondary DNS address 61.0.0.5

> > > And I get the following when I use fetchmail:

> > > fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of mailserver

> > Your DNS is not resolving.
> > 
> > Confirm the DNS addresses your connection is receiving are correct.

> > Ed.

> Many thanks! What do I do to correct this problem?

> Globe

Make sure you have set PEERDNS=yes (in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 while using wvdial? maybe in
wvdial's configuration). That causes the /etc/resolve.conf to be updated
at each dial-in.

Alexander


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