Re: DNS problem?

Luciano PELLE <ciano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Try pinging an address like
69.147.114.210 (www.yahoo.com) and look at the last lines of
/var/log/syslog.
Unfortunately I can't ping this address and syslog does not show anything
more that the results for the connection.

If you can't ping an IP address then there is a problem unrelated to
DNS nameservers. What message is generated by ping when it fails
for 69.147.114.210? Does ping fail for 10.64.64.64?

It might simply be that there is no auto-magic setup for DNS by the
distribution.

What does it mean "auto-magic setup"? I noticed that /etc/resolv.conf and
/etc/ppp/resolv.conf are automatically updated with the correct
nameserver(s) lines

nameserver 193.70.152.25
nameserver 193.70.192.25

when I connect via my cell. Are those things related? I have just

They are related. But /etc/ppp/resolv.conf is updated by pppd and
/etc/resolv.conf is updated by the "auto-magic" of the distribution
(by using /etc/ppp/resolv.conf, or by using the environmental variables
DNS1, DNS2 that pppd makes available in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script).
The resolver only uses /etc/resolv.conf.

installed a Debian Etch, maybe it's a bug in the pppd daemon (2.4.4) in
this distro?

I don't think so, unless Debian modifies the standard pppd 2.4.4.

There is a lot involved in what you are doing that is not related to
PPP and with which I am not familiar. If you really believe the problem
is a PPP problem then you can add this line to /etc/syslog.conf

daemon.*;local2.* /var/log/ppp.log

and then do "kill -HUP `pidof syslogd` to get syslogd to reread
syslog.conf. The log file produced during connection may be useful.

Thanks for your patience.

--
Clifford Kite
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