One of the greatest about Arch is the help here, thanks again.
]]>Of course not using the resolv.conf's genereated by either pppd or dhcpd and using fixed, manually chosen dns servers is another solution.
]]>Next time you connect with the wireless card check if the symlink is still there or if it's gone (checking the content of the file may be interesting too). If it is gone then making /etc/resolv.conf a hardlink to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf should fix it forever, assuming that the nameservers provided by both dhcp and pppd are always good.
You could consider using dnsmasq too, it's a small DNS proxy and cache server (and also a dhcp server, but only if you configure it so).
]]>Do you think you could do a stupid newb a favor and explain why the dns changed, and what exactly that does?.... was it looking on the wrong network (the one at work) for the hostname, which was causing it to timeout, then go to the second one in the list (my PPP connection)?
]]>I boot into mepis <snip> it works fine
have you compared your mepis configs with the Arch ones to check for any differences, rc.conf / resolv.conf etc ? or compared the output of ifconfig on both ?
]]>After I connect, and try to load any webpage or connect to anything, it waits about 12 seconds before resolving anything. It really annoys me, and kinda makes my computer worthless to browse the internet as I have to wait about 40 seconds before I get ONE webpage.
I know it's not my ISP, as on the same computer, I boot into mepis (haven't gotten around to deleting the partition and I don't want to bother to reset up Arch), it works fine.
I don't want to have to reboot when I want to get online, or.. shudder... use the other computer here.....
Any advice/questions are more than welcome...
Thanks guys!
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