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Re: [Plug] pppd and auto DNS
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If you specify them all and the first 2 are firewalled, you'll have to
wait for them to time out. This is REALLY slow.
The other thing he could do is just run a caching nameserver. That'd
fix everything.
Mental
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"you make insanity respectable."
--Helcat on the subject of Mental.
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Hugh Brock wrote:
> Joshua Mazess wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that one of my "ISP"'s is a protected, firewalled network with DNS
> > servers in a demilitarized zone, which can only be used while connected to that
> > provider. I have to use one set of DNS servers for my regular ISP and another set
> > for the protected network. And again, I don't want to change resolv.conf files each
> > time I dial up. Windows can handle dynamic DNS without any problem. Why not Linux?
>
> I may have missed something earlier, but why not just specify *all* the
> nameservers in resolv.conf? The resolver will just run through them
> until it finds one it can reach.
>
> --Hugh
>
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