pppd only allows access to the DNS servers from ROOT

[mihochan]

Hi,

I've installed Gentoo for my machine at home.
I've managed to get the ppp0 interface up and running. ( this is the proof ! ) but I have a strange problem.

I only seem to have access to the nameservers from root.
Any other user can ping an IP address but not an alias like,
'www.gentoo.org'

Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? I'm just starting pppd with the /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 script with the mimium changes for my ISP.

Thanks,

Tom

PS Here is the ifconfig output:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:D7:7A:BC
inet addr:10.1.0.228 Bcast:10.1.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:480 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:28800 (28.1 Kb)
Interrupt:22 Base address:0x4000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:43459 (42.4 Kb) TX bytes:43459 (42.4 Kb)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:61.68.120.39 P-t-P:210.8.1.10 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:768 Metric:1
RX packets:444 errors:23 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:164678 (160.8 Kb) TX bytes:55226 (53.9 Kb)

[klieber]

First guess: your /etc/resolv.conf doesn't have world-readable permissions set on it.

--kurt
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[mihochan]

Thanks, that was the problem.

Tom