Dear Jacques,
I tried your suggestions:
I put usepeerdns into /etc/ppp/options, I remove the
ethernet-cable, I do $wvdial with Auto DNS = yes in
/etc/wvdial.conf, and obtain
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Wed Feb 29 17:38:23 2012
--> Pid of pppd: 8823
--> Using interface ppp0
--> local IP address 212.144.133.137
--> remote IP address 145.253.1.100
--> primary DNS address 195.50.140.248
--> secondary DNS address 145.253.2.203
--> Script /etc/ppp/ip-up run successful
--> Default route Ok.
--> warning, can't find address for `www.suse.de`
--> warning, address lookup does not work
--> Nameserver (DNS) failure, the connection may not work.
and no throughput through the connection. The search for
www.suse.de is a DNS-check built into wvdial by SUSE.
Even if I remove /etc/resolv.conf it is immediately restored by
the NetworkManager with the old entries:
search localdomain site
nameserver 192.168.0.1
(the DNS of my DSL). Only if I replace those
entries with a static nameserver, then I get a working connection
with wvdial. You said the other day, that your resolv.conf for
ppp sits in /var/run/ppp, but such a directory does not exist in
SUSE 11.4, and if I create it, it has no effect. A search for
other resolv.conf files on my system showed me
1) a file /var/run/ppp_resolv.conf.ppp0 which contains the above
DNS adresses:
nameserver 195.50.140.248
nameserver 145.253.2.203
If I add a valid DNS address to this file instead of
/etc/resolv.conf it is ignored, and still no working connection.
2) and a file /var/adm/netconfig/md5/etc/resolv.conf which
contains
#^###
f40cb6e6e9d7c60cead0424139a8722a -
I have the same impression as Ludwig that this is a
SUSE-issue.
Sincerely
Wolfgang
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Jacques Goldberg wrote:
Dear Ludwig,
Please forgive me to remind here, since I do not know you, that
wvdial/wdialconf are not programs that operate the communication but rather
friendly utilities that prepare the parameters (data) for the real program
which does the work, pppd.
Now please can you tell us if there is or not a line usepeerdns in your
file /etc/ppp/options
If there is not, please add that line.
Then please try to connect to your analog modem ISP with wvdial and Auto DNS
= yes, do not worry for what there is or not in /etc/resolv.conf because in
this case pppd should NOT use /etc/resolv.conf, disconnect the cable from DSL
to PC to make sure that you use the analog modem, and try to surf the Web,
like Google or others. Does it work?
If it works (it should), reconnect your DSL, make it work by adding the DSL
DNS in /etc/resolv.conf if necessary (see Note) and give the following
commands in a separate window as superuser (the first takes time), while
wvdial (pppd) is still running: updatedb ,then this long composite command
for f in `locate resolv.conf* `;do echo $f;cat $f;done so that you can
see the contents of the various resolv.conf present on your computer.
Note: if your DSL box is not old, and I am sure you were given a brand new
one since DSL is new in your place, configure your PC (Linux) for the DSL
connection to take DNS's from the DSL box (do not define /etc/resolv.conf
and make it clear in the network s\manager definitions, no local name
server, no local DNS). Your DSL box normally comes configured such that the
DSL box takes itself automatically the DNS addresses from the network. You
may want,and even need, to check that your DSL box is configured like that.
That way you should not hear of DNS's any more once you have usepeerdns
in your /etc/ppp/options .
Regards
Jacques
n 02/29/012 02:00 PM, Ludwig Gebauer wroteresolv.conf
With "Auto DNS = yes" in wvdial.conf, DNS addresses show up in the wvdial
protocol, when running wvdial (ISP: www.yooline.de ), whether network manager
is activated or not. wi And whether network manager is activated or not, I
have to edit resolv.conf manually. Since a few weeks, DSL exists here in my
village, 12 km afar from Brunswick (so much about the highly industrialisated
etc. country Germany), and with my DSL _modem_ (not a modem _router_!) I have
the same effect: DNS addresses must be transferred manually to resolv.conf.
Seems to be an openSUSE 11.4 issue.
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