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>Your PPP server sysadmin/user support people should provide you with two
DNS IP numbers (only one is necessary - but two gives some
redundancy in the event of failure).</P
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>As previously mentioned, Linux cannot set its name server IP number
in the way that MS Windows 95 does. So you must <EM
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>Your <TT
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nameserver 10.25.0.1
nameserver 10.25.1.2</PRE
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>Edit this file (creating it if necessary) to represent the information
that your ISP has provided. It should have ownership and permissions as
follows :-</P
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>If you have already set up a <TT
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LAN, simply add the IP numbers of the PPP DNS servers to your
existing file.</P
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