[CLUE-Tech] PPTP DNS Problems

[David Anselmi]

David L. Willson wrote:

> Here's an annoying 'feature'.  Can anyone shed some light?
> 
> When I PPTP into work, my /etc/resolv.conf updates, but somehow, my
> actual resolutions continue to fail.  I can 'dig' and get the right
> (internal) address, but when I 'traceroute' or 'ping', I get the wrong
> (external) address.

Dig seems to ignore entries in /etc/hosts but ping does not.  Any chance 
you've got an /etc/hosts entry for that box?

Just a guess.

Dave