On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Rick Sewill<rsewill@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:zeitler<cfzeitler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > using fedora11, after a while ( about 1.5 weeks on this computer )
>> > my network connection stops working...
>>
>> thanks to the help offered, i have reduced
>> the problem domain...
>>
>> manually inserting 'nameserver' 's in
>> resolve.conf yields a working system,
>> but i have no idea what causes the
>> loss of dns in the first place... so i'm
>> not ready to call it a bug...
>
> This is progress.
>
> Do we know if the ISP is supposed to dynamically supply the name
> servers?
yes, they (at&t) do.
>
> but there might be two possibilities since you are using PPPoE.
> 1) You might use a configuration option in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0, namely "usepeerdns=yes"
i have "peerdns=yes"
> Please see "man pppoe.conf", and let me quote:
> "
> USEPEERDNS
> If set to "yes", then pppoe-connect will supply the usepeerdns
> option to pppd, which causes it to obtain DNS server addresses
> from the peer and create a new /etc/resolv.conf file. Other-
> wise, pppoe-connect will not supply this option, and pppd will
> not modify /etc/resolv.conf.
> "
>
> Alternatively, you might be able to put a "usepeerdns" option in
> /etc/ppp/options.
> If you already have usepeerdns=yes
> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0,
> it is possible that option is being overridden.
> Let me again quote from "man pppd":
> "
> OPTIONS FILES
> Options can be taken from files as well as the command line. Pppd
> reads options from the files /etc/ppp/options, ~/.ppprc and
> /etc/ppp/options.ttyname (in that order) before processing the options
> on the command line....
hmmm...
> "
>
> All of this is assuming the ISP will supply you with the name server
> information dynamically.
>
> If the ISP wants you to configure your name server information manually,
> the question becomes, what changed /etc/resolv.conf and when and why.
>
i believe that is the question....
i will see about reproducing the problem...
thanks for the tips...
charles zeitler
--
Do What Thou Wilt
Shall Be
The Whole of
The Law
-Aleister Crowley
--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
