RE: [LI] Dynamic DNS?

[Rajkumar Andrews <shibumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*******  This posting is horribly long so those who are NOT interested please 
send me a personal email.  If there is some sense I will post a condensed 
version for the benefit of others on the list. ********

a) Authentication is terminal based.  Others forms of authentication do not 
work.  Mantra assumes that everybody is using Win95 or 98 or NT!!
b) There is really no error.  /var/log/messages reports that the connection is 
valid.  When I have inactivity on the modem I tried pinging my own ISP's 
host(mantraonline) and it gives 30% packet loss.  Other hosts (like 
linux-india.org or hotmail or freshmeat) gives 100% packet loss!  The modem 
remains connected but there is no activity; Netscape status bar shows stall.  
I can't waste precious rupees waiting for eternity, you know.

I did read the PPP, DNS, and other howto's before I posted this email.  Linux 
does support dynamic hosts.  What I am confused about is the logic behind the 
nameserver part.  If I am connected to mantraonline then the DNS on that 
server ought to handle name serving, routing etc. (via VSNL, of course).  What 
I am concerned about is that if these guys are plugging in servers manually 
(or some such hardware glitch) then obviously we would stall.  This used to 
happen in the early days of VSNL too.  Mantra is using Unix (they don't want 
to tell me which version, flavour), BTW, so my reaction is that this is a 
human introduced problem.  If we can solve it I wouldn't mind telling Mantra 
how to solve it!!  THAT is the whole exercise of Open Source Software.

With all these problems I couldn't access the archives on linux-india so 
forgive me if I am trying the patience of you folks.

RKA
>===== Original Message From linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx =====
>Hi
> As a standard measure(for those all dial up does not work), set 'noauth'
>in /etc/ppp/options. Also check the type of authentication you are
>using.(pap/chap/terminal based etc.)
> Bye
>  Shridhar
>
>On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Rajkumar Andrews wrote:

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