Re: Round about the way question.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > When dialing up to an ISP with a windows machine, DNS servers are > assigned. > > When using "pppd call provider" on a debian box (or any linux box) a > connection is made, but no DNS servers are automatically fo

Re: Round about the way question.

Marc-Adrian, I think this can best be described by the philosophy of the various operating systems. Micros~1's Vision Statement is, "A computer on every desktop." They have darn near nailed that one. Part of the remaining half of US households without computers includes the elderly, the poor, the

Round about the way question.

Hi there. I'm just curious as to why this is. When dialing up to an ISP with a windows machine, DNS servers are assigned. When using "pppd call provider" on a debian box (or any linux box) a connection is made, but no DNS servers are automatically found. Why is this? Why do i have to manually p