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[Christian Brandt <brandtc AT psi5.com>]

sindi keesan schrieb:

> I have found that any DNS numbers (from the same country you are in, 
> anyway) will work, you don't need the ones from your particular ISP.  Most 
> ISPs post their servers at their website.

 This will break in the near future. Making DNS accessible outside 
their dedicated networks is prone for DDOS-attacks and will be faded 
away over the next years.

> Windows dialup networking does not require that you give it nameservers. 
> It uses bootp or udhcpc or something.   Do the 'modern' linuxes need DNS 
> servers?

 In fact it uses ms-chap and works with nothing else. Usually this also 
works well with linux but not always as it needs some integration into 
the ip-up-scripts.

 Christian Brandt