13.1. The /etc/resolv.conf file

Your PPP server sysadmin/user support people should provide you with two DNS IP numbers (only one is necessary - but two gives some redundancy in the event of failure).

As previously mentioned, Linux cannot set its name server IP number in the way that MS Windows 95 does. So you must insist (politely) that your ISP provide you with this information!

Your /etc/resolv.conf should look something like :-

domain your.isp.domain.name
nameserver 10.25.0.1
nameserver 10.25.1.2

Edit this file (creating it if necessary) to represent the information that your ISP has provided. It should have ownership and permissions as follows :-

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           73 Feb 19 01:46 /etc/resolv.conf

If you have already set up a /etc/resolv.conf because you are on a LAN, simply add the IP numbers of the PPP DNS servers to your existing file.