Re: ppp sometimes receives bogus dns with 3G hsdpa modems

[Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>]

Milan P. Stanic wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 14:59, Jelle de Jong wrote:
>> I am having some question on why my hdspa ppp connection sometimes
>> but not always receives a bogus dns server (10.11.12.13). That
>> causes DNS resolving to break.
>>
>> So I know there are several things I can use as workaround like
>> using resolvconf or disable the domain-name-servers request in the
>> dhclient.conf.
>>
>> I am using Debian stable with ppp version 2.4.4rel-10.1
>>
>> But I would like to see what the experts think what causes these
>> issues and what would be the best solution?
>>
>> This system connection should try to stay persistent connected no
>> matter what.
> 
> Look here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugD5711
> 
> There are more references on that matter on the Net. And is discussed
> here some time ago.

Thank you both Milan and Charlie,

The hyperlink confirmed some earlier searching about the issue.

I do have some questions. It seems Ubuntu made some patches for there 
ppp version that they think should present a solutions.

However these patches seems not to be included in Debian or by you guys 
upstream, why is this?

see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ppp/+bug/258801/comments/63

I am now going to test the connect-delay 5000 option that was also 
presented in some Debian bug comments.

Best regards,

Jelle