Re: Is there a networking guru in the room?

[Roberto Alsina <ralsina@unl.edu.ar>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, JF Martinez wrote:

> 
> I have seen that Suse uses wvdialconf for PPP config but in addition
> it uses some closed source black magic who allows them to guess the
> DNS used by the ISP without any user input.  And it works.  How is
> that possible?  It must be related to DHCP but DHCP is not supposed to
> work on seral lines.

AFAIK pppd can provide the DNS configuration to the client side.
Most any ISP should do that by defect.

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