On Friday 18 June 2004, Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:

giving it the name of debian.org sounds, erm, very wrong to me. Your machine is *NOT* debian.org, don't tell it that it is... My home machine was set up with hostname set to dustpuppy and domain to thehouse.home (which does not exist :), it just worked. At a guess I'd say that you're specifying some DNS servers that it can't access when not dialed up, you should probably not set any DNS servers during the setup *except* from in the ppp config, though I normally set that to automagic, which just works :)

I found it it was an example on page 48 of "learning Debian GNU/Linux.