Hi all, I have moved from an ethernet connection to ppp. I have a couple of questions. I would really appreciate some help 1) pppd comes up on boot fine and I can telnet to a remote host as long as I use the ip numeric address. When I use the word address e.g. cus.cam.ac.uk instead of 131.... I get a message saying there was a host lookup failure. This is not a ppp specific problem as xdm will not start either giving a message of a non valid address. I have purged my system of all references to the previous name and ip address of machine (at leastas far as I know ) but I must be missing something . Any ideas ? 2) a related question. I have a static ip address with my isp. Do files such as /etc/network /etc/reoslv.conf e.t.c need to be reset or is everything taking happening with the /etc/ppp/* files ? Hoe about the /etc/init.d related files like /etc/network , /etc/netbase ? by the way is the command ifconfig ppp0 .... valid ? The system complains about an unknown inteface. I am asking this because I would like to set up services such as xntp sshd e.t.c. 3) How can the connection be used only when a service is required and not all the time as in the u.k. there is no flat telephone rate ? 4) Finally (thanks for your patience) is a setup where a single telephone line supports both the modem and the phone able to support incoming connections ? How does it work ? If any of the questions can be answered by RTFMing please let me know of the appropriate manual. Thanks for any help
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