You can enable debugging in your pppd config which may help. There is also a "usepeerdns" pppd option that may give you some joy. I have a client who has a prison as a customer and they have lots of unusual requirements for computers inside the wire. I have debugged hundreds of PPP clients/servers over the years so if you want some help feel free to reach out and contact me. On 2023-02-28 15:28, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
Thanks, all. Yes, there has to be a DNS, but there's a chance that
1. we haven't been told what it is; 2. our connection/hardware hasn't been authorized to connect to it or know what it is (yes, it's that kind of place)
There is no other internet connection. We've been given a host name, not an internal IP address to connect to. We're also hearing that we're the first folks connecting via this ultra-locked down LTE network for IOT devices, so maybe they forgot to provision some services
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 3:11 PM Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
PPP does not require a dns server address to be provided. But most folks do provide one because it would make for LOTS of support calls to not hand out your DNS servers.
Is there a DNS on the network that your connecting to at all? If not then you wll likely be forecd to use the /etc/hosts file to add in the IP addresses of the target systems.
On 2023-02-28 14:50, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > Hey - we've got a fun little problem happening right now. > > We're connecting a Linux box via LTE to a client's private network. > They want us to connect to a host on that network and upload files via > sftp. We've demonstrated that all of this works with every other LTE > network, but in their walled garden LTE network, they're not returning > any DNS server, so we can't find the host at all. This network does > not have access to public DNS. > > Does one usually have to poke a ppp connection a little more to get > useful routing information, or should we have "just got" all the > gateway and DNS details on first connection? > > Stewart > (as you can tell, I'm not a network person, but we might appreciate > finding one and paying for support) > > > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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