pppd and DNS

[Jorge Santos]

On 4/28/05, steven at heimann.com.au <steven at heimann.com.au> wrote:
> I am running Ubuntu 5.04.
> 
> I have installed the pppd package.  This seems to run a user space version
> of pppd different to the one run by the default installation.  I did this
> because I needed to restrict mtu to 1400 to tunnel through a firewall and
> the default pppd doesn't seem to honor mtu statements.
> 
> What I would like to do now is have pppd keep my existing dns server in
> resolv.conf as well as add one it gets from the ISP when it connects
> (pppoe over ADSL).
> 
> I have been playing with the usepeerdns option but it doesn't seem to make
> any difference.
> 
> Any suggestions re how to achieve this?
> 

The stuff that matters resides in /etc/dhcp3/, there is a file called
dhclient.conf in there, add to it a line like:

prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1

with the address of the name server you want to add in place of the 127.0.0.1.

That should do it.

Hope it helps,
Jorge