From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTR20-0008H2-L4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:54:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C244E01A3; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice05.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF330E01A3 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n6M1s6HD027087 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:54:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n6M1s5Gs012187 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:54:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8EEC81F311; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:58:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:58:12 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PPP and reseting the DNS servers. Message-ID: <20090722015812.GA8733@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <4A6656E1.2040008@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A6656E1.2040008@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 36c5004c-aca2-473a-adae-a21fe40377cc X-Archives-Hash: d374abf4a5fffb005d26132cc1f3a36f 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 -- Hannelore: Sure thing, but I can only eat slices that have an even 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 even-numbered slice! Math is delicious! Sortir en Pantoufles: up 957 days, 39 min