PPPoE seems to work, but no DNS

[Will Hartung]

Hi all,

I followed a couple of the guides on the web for getting PPPoE to work with
my provider from my Sol 8 Ultra 10.

After the interface comes up, and I ifconfig -a to show the sppp(?) device,
with an IP, I try to ping yahoo.com, and it immediately comes back as not
found.

I have an empty reslov.conf, and pretty much nothing in my hosts file.

Any other areas I should look?

Thanx!

Regards,

Will Hartung
(willh@msoft.com)

[Tom Hamilton]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:18:29 -0700, Will Hartung wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I followed a couple of the guides on the web for getting PPPoE to work with
> my provider from my Sol 8 Ultra 10.
>
> After the interface comes up, and I ifconfig -a to show the sppp(?) device,
> with an IP, I try to ping yahoo.com, and it immediately comes back as not
> found.
>
> I have an empty reslov.conf, and pretty much nothing in my hosts file.
>
> Any other areas I should look?
>
> Thanx!
>
> Regards,
>
> Will Hartung
> (willh@msoft.com)

Edit the /etc/resolv.conf to look like this

nameserver <IP of ISP's #1 Nameserver>
nameserver <IP of ISP's #2 Nameserver>

then cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf
nsswitch.dns is a template file

Getting the computer on the net and getting name resolution to work are
two separate tasks.