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From: presotto@pla...
Subject: Re: [9fans] Does no ethernet address=no reference to /lib/ndb/local?
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:40:12 -0500

IF you are starting ppp by hand, there's no reason to use
ipconfig.  You need to mail /ndb/local entries only if the
ISP doesn't support the options for telling you dns server,
etc.  Unfortunately, that's often the case.

One way to see what it's giving you is by cat'ing /net/ndb
after you are connected to the ISP.  Both ppp and ipconfig
put everything they learn in there.  That file is implemented
in the ip stack and is how we let dynamicly learned info
be used by programs that use /lib/ndb files.  Both cs and
dns search that file first.