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- From: fugue@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (fugue)
- Subject: AmiTCP 4.0/PPP DNS Problem. HELP!
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- Originator: fugue@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu
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- Organization: Antisocial Scones and Pubic Polypy Contorting
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:14:11 GMT
-
- Hi all...
- I've been watching the group for a while hoping an answer to my question
- would appear (as well as using DejaNews to check back in time...), but none
- has to date, so I'll ask.
-
- First, a bit of tech setup info:
- A1200, 50MHz 68030 w/MMU, 25MHz FPU, 8 fast, 2 chip, 1.2 gig SCSI, 14.4k modem.
- AmiTCP 4.0 Demo
- PPP Unregistered (the newest release, whatever version it is...)
-
- Anyway...I used to run AmiTCP over a non-dynamically-assigned SLIP connection
- (using cslip...I had a permanent IP), and everything worked absolutely fine.
-
- Now, the Powers That Be(TM) decided that my little pet IP should go away, so
- I'm being forced to used a dial-up, dynamic PPP connection, which hangs up
- every 3 hours. I installed PPP, and used one of the many dialer programs
- out there (I'm at work now and can't recall the name, but it's very nice,
- with an intuitive GUI and easy scripting...whichever it is, I love it).
-
- Anyhow, for some reason, there are several problems cropping up.
- 1) in ENV:, my .config file keeps changing back to my old one, even though
- it no longer exists in ENVARC:, and none of my scripts touch it. I have
- to hand-edit the thing each time.
-
- 2) DNS is kaput. For some reason, the file in db: which is responsible for
- assigning DNS names/addresses (again, I'm at work and blanking on the name)
- keeps getting reset to default. I have to overwrite it from backup to get
- it to work, and even then DNS sometimes refuses to work.
-
- These two things are the biggest problems I'm having. #1 I don't mind so much,
- since I figure I've simply overlooked a file somewhere, but I'm absolutely,
- positively, 100% certain that NOTHING anywhere in my system EVER touches the
- db: files for a write or copy. I have NO idea why that file keeps disappearing
- and it's gonna drive me nuts. PPP without DNS is more worthless that a
- straight shell account, IMHO. Is it the TCP stack that's causing this?
-
- I've almost come to the conclusion that, to get everything to work properly,
- I'm simply going to have to remove ALL net apps from my drive, remove ALL
- config files, ALL setenvs and assigns, etc. etc. etc., and reinstall
- EVERYTHING, since the PPP installer apparently thinks you're installing it
- as well as AMITCP at the same time. I am beginning to think that, after
- spending months and months a year ago getting all the programs I used
- configured and working together in harmony (not an easy feat, if you saw
- some of the things I ran, including several AREXX netcrawling scripts I
- wrote), that I'm going to have to start again from scratch.
-
- Make my day and tell me this isn't true, that there's some easier solution
- to all of this.
-
- Thanks!
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- / __)______________ _O_ "blood can be pretty like a delicate man...
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- ___
- / __)______________ _O_ "blood can be pretty like a delicate man...
- / __) / (_' ) / / '_) T copper to steel to a hinge that has faltered,
- l_/ /___/(__/___/___) | that lets you in lets you in lets you in..."
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