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From: Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PPP and reseting the DNS servers.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:58:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090722015812.GA8733@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6656E1.2040008@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:01:37PM -0500, Penguin Lover Dale squawked:
> I use dial-up and sometimes my ISP "looses" its DNS server for some
> reason.  If I try to go to a site, it just says looking up and sits
> there until it times out.  Going to the IP directly still works.  My
> question is this, is there a way to "reset" the DNS servers listed in
> /etc/resolv.conf?  I notice I have a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/40-dns.sh
> that according to what I read is what sets the DNS server when I
> connect.  Is it safe for me to run that manually?


If your provider's DNS server is unreliable, perhaps try a work around
and use OpenDNS? Their nameservers are at 208.67.222.222 and
208.67.220.220. You have to hardcode that into resolv.conf, and run
dhcpcd with '-C resolv.conf'. 

W

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    number of toppings on them.
Marten: Couldn't you just, like, put an extra piece of pepperoni on an
    odd-toppinged slice and even it out that way?
Pintsize: Couldn't you ALSO take a topping off, if it was an odd number?
Winslow: Or you could multiply any odd-numbered slice by any
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-22  1:54 UTC|newest]

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2009-07-22  0:01 [gentoo-user] PPP and reseting the DNS servers Dale
2009-07-22  1:58 ` Willie Wong [this message]

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