[H-GEN] weird error with telstra cable

[Kristy Ferrari]

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Hi all,

if  _anyone_ has any ideas, I'd be very very thankful. I recently had 
telstra cable installed and it's working fine under windows, however I get 
an error when trying to connect under debian.  Basically my computer cannot 
find the authentication server unless I have a ppp connection. Once I'm 
authed, the cable link works fine, however until it's made my computer 
cannot find the authentication server.

the /etc/resolv.conf file has a domain of qld.bigpond.net.au, which is also 
in the search path, however neither of these work. My only thought is that 
the nameservers supplied by bigpond are incorrect and once the ppp 
connection is made it's able to use another nameserver to get the ip of the 
authentication server ... however once I'm authorised the nameserver used, 
if I do an nslookup is actually the primary telstra dns server rather than 
anything else


please Help

desperate ;)

Kristy 


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