ADSL via PPPoE

[Shawn Coomey]

This may be too simplistic, or way off as far as DSL is concerned, but...

Do the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf have the ip address of your 
ISP's nameserver?

Shawn


On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 11:11 AM, aaron wrote:

> Hi All,
> 	I 've seen several posts lately about problems with PPPoE, namely 
> being able
> to get a connection and an IP address from the provider, but being 
> unable to
> do name resolution.  I have Verizon DSL and I'm desperately trying to 
> get it
> to work on YD Linux 2.1, but I'm encountering the DNS problem: I get
> connected and get an IP address, but no name resolution.
>
> I've read through all of the dsl-related postings here (and I've tried 
> all of
> the suggestions), and many elsewhere, but I haven't found a way to get 
> this
> to work.  Even worse, I haven't seen any postings anywhere where people
> claimed to have succeeded!
>
> For sanity purposes, has anyone been able to get ADSL using PPPoE up and
> running on YD linux 2.1?  If so what did you do to get DNS working?
>
> So far I've tried Roaring Penguin's tools, which succeeded in getting a
> connection, and all of the suggestions given in the "RP-PPPoE & Verizon 
> DSL"
> thread and the other threads that discussed DSL.
>
> Any help will be much appreciated, I really need this for work.
>
> -Aaron
>
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