AutoPPP with mgetty

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On 22 Jan 97 08:19:03 GMT, gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) wrote:

>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.
>
Gert is correct about the problem being with the Win95 settings. What
you must do is open My_Computer>Control_Panel>Network, view the
properties of your TCP/IP interface, and set the DNS Configuration.
Note that nothing your enter on this panel will be stored until you
press the add button.

>> 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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