Re: DNS during PPP negotiation (doh!)

Sherwood Portmaster-List (livingston@iav.com)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 00:19:37 -1000 (HST)

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Leonard wrote:

> Doh!
> I found it: page 4-7, Command Line Administrator's Guide
> "set nameserver 2 x.x.x.x"
> And now I shall go bang my head against the wall a couple of times :)

Nah, no head-banging without appropriate music!
I still think they should have a few sysadmins going through the editing
of those books. ;) They make it way too organized... hehe

> On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Leonard wrote:
>

[snip]

> > As a side question, isn't it part of PPP negotiations for the PM3 to
> > tell the users' DUN what it's DNSes are (ie. don't set DNS in DUN at all)?
> > We tried that a while back, but about half our users would not be able to
> > obtain the DNS ips.

You set the DUN icon to obtain address automatically and obtain name
server addresses. I'm not sure if this method grabs 2 DNS servers or only
1.

Then you need to make sure that in Control Panel | network | TCP/IP
disable DNS here.

ALL of my clients with win95 that have done this haven't had further
problems... AFAIK... hehe someone just called today and found that someone
had removed TCP/IP and he wondered why it would fail negotiation...

--
Aloha from Paradise,

Sherwood