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Re: Only some IPs accessable?

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"Chris Davies" <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2hpim8x384.ln2@news.roaima.co.uk...
>>> 3. Has your /etc/resolv.conf been updated with these DNS servers?
>
> NoHtmlMailsPlease <UsePlainText@dog.edu> wrote:
>> -> cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf  ==
>> nameserver 41.160.0.36
>> nameserver 41.164.0.11
>> ====> these are dynamically provided by this new/ISP2
>
> But what about /etc/resolv.conf (not /etc/ppp/resolv.conf)? It's *this*
> file that gets used by the system for name resolution.
>
> The /etc/ppp/resolv.conf file contains the values derived via ppp, which
> may or may not be relevant. So it's optional whether they get installed
> into the true resolv.conf. In my distro (Debian, not Slackware TBH),
> the ppp "up" script installs /etc/ppp/resolv.conf into /etc/resolv.conf.

Here:Slak13 `ls /etc/res* -l`
shows 3 OLD files. /etc/resolv.conf == 2 lines copied manually now
search neotel.co.za
nameserver 207.132.16.5

and /etc/ppp/resolv.conf  is new/NOW with the DNSs of this problematic ISP.

>
> It may be that this scripting is broken or doesn't exist, or perhaps
> you could get away with a simple "ln -fs /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
> /etc/resolv.conf".
>
WOW!! Linking /etc/resolv.conf to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
 does it !!

Thanks man.
I've just fetched my email, which needed Slak's X.
I had been tearing my guts out trying to get it via
`chroot <the old proven installations>` via telnet.

I suspect that I skipped the <config inet/ppp step> during installing
Slak, because it seemed unlikely that ANY linux would connect to the
fixed-wireless-telephone's wireless, which is only specified to work with
Win.   Since it uses the zeroCD method, whereby the PC's USB initially see
a simulated CD, which it downloads and runs to drive the modem;
the modem and driver could be a completely secret standard.
Ie. since the modem tells the Win-PC how to dance, it could be an
unknown protocol.

The wireless modem only connects to linux after it's been 'primed' by Win7.
The normal zeroCD protocol, is that the PC sends some byte/s to the
device, to make it switch over from a CD to a modem, once the PC has
d/l-ed the driver-software from the simulated CD.

Having climbed this big mountain with your help, I now need a rest,
and then I'd like to understand how/why/where linux puts the DNS-IPs
given by the ISP, and how they are then used.

Thanks,

== Chris Glur.

> Chris

PS. we note that I got no help from Slak-boys.
 

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Only some IPs accessable? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-10-07 22:42 +0200
  Re: Only some IPs accessable? Frank Boehm <fraboehm@gmx.de> - 2011-10-08 07:39 +0000
  Re: Only some IPs accessable? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-10-08 14:24 +0100
    Re: Only some IPs accessable? Ivan Shmakov <ivan@gray.siamics.net> - 2011-10-08 23:18 +0700
      Re: Only some IPs accessable? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-10-08 21:29 +0100
    Re: Only some IPs accessable? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-10-12 15:09 +0200
      Re: Only some IPs accessable? Ralph Spitzner <rasp@spitzner.org> - 2011-10-12 17:24 +0200
        Re: Only some IPs accessable? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-10-13 10:55 +0100
      Re: Only some IPs accessable? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-10-12 22:22 +0200
      Re: Only some IPs accessable? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2011-10-13 11:01 +0100
        Re: Only some IPs accessable? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-10-14 23:00 +0200
          Re: Only some IPs accessable? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-10-15 11:46 +0200
            Re: Only some IPs accessable? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2011-10-15 04:59 -0800
              Re: Only some IPs accessable? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-10-15 16:39 +0000
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2011-10-15 08:50 -0800
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-10-15 16:58 +0000
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-10-15 19:07 +0100
              Re: Only some IPs accessable? Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-10-15 19:50 +0200
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) - 2011-10-15 12:30 -0800
                Re: Only some IPs accessable? Ralph Spitzner <rasp@spitzner.org> - 2011-10-19 18:14 +0200

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