AutoPPP with mgetty

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Hi,

Dan Mount wrote:
> I just switched from getty_ps to mgetty 1.0.0 and am quite pleased with the
> results. I have a question about AutoPPP. I have several dialup users that use
> Win95, when I use the AutoPPP feature the client connects and logs in fine.
> They can get to any IP address out there, but it's as though named doesn't
> work. The domain name that the dialup machine's name is
> "bubber.atlanta.itserve.com". If I ping "bubber.atlanta.itserve.com" from the
> Win95  box, it sees it fine, if I ping "bubber" it doesn't find the IP address.

This sounds like the domain isn't set on the W95 host.

> If I don't use AutoPPP and just let the users log in and run a script to fire
> off pppd it works fine. I don't have any name lookup failures.

There is some PPPD option concerning "ms name service" (if I remember
correctly), maybe this option is set differently in the script and in the
AutoPPP command line?

Anyway, this is not a mgetty problem, but a PPP setup problem...

gert

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