On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 21:17:59 +0000 BenEBoy mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
As an aside, why does PPP install resolv.conf in /etc/ppp when it expects to find it in /etc. It's just taken me an embarressingly long time to figure that one out :-)
I can't say for sure, but I would guess it is to give you extra flexibility.
If your only network connection is via PPP and you have no DNS cache then the resolv.conf written by PPP is probably right for you and you could make the system always use it by making /etc/resolv.conf a symbolic link to it, or making /etc/ppp/resolv.conf a symbolic link to /etc/resolv.conf
If you have a more complex configuation you have the opportunity to run a script from /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to take the contents of /etc/ppp/resolv.conf and build them into the config for your DNS cache, or combine with other entries before generating the real /etc/resolv.conf.
Steve.