I think a look at what is happening is the best answer here # /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start * Starting ppp0 * Bringing up ppp0 * ppp * Running pppd ... * ppp0 received address 79.113.153.111/32 very short time after connection # ls -l /etc/resolv.conf ; cat /etc/resolv.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-12-10 01:52 /etc/resolv.conf -> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf nameserver 213.157.188.164 nameserver 213.157.188.162 one lonely second later # ls -l /etc/resolv.conf ; cat /etc/resolv.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-12-10 01:52 /etc/resolv.conf -> /etc/ppp/resolv.conf # Generated by net-scripts for interface ppp0 domain no-ip.org my options for ppp0 from /etc/conf.d/net pppd_ppp0=( "updetach" "defaultroute" "usepeerdns" ) so shortly said pppd reads the correct settings and then flushes them Reproducible: Always stable hardened amd64 gentoo, no modified ebuilds, everything is default, let me know if you need more info on this
Post the output of `sed -e 's/#.*//;/^\s*$/d' /etc/conf.d/net`, emerge --info and reopen then. Thanks.
# sed -e 's/#.*//;/^\s*$/d' /etc/conf.d/net dns_domain="no-ip.org" config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) dhcp_eth0=( "nogateway" ) config_ppp0=( "ppp" ) plugins_ppp0=( "pppoe" ) link_ppp0="eth0" username_ppp0='CJ8947653' pppd_ppp0=( "updetach" "defaultroute" "usepeerdns" ) depend_ppp0() { need net.eth0 } # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (hardened/amd64/multilib, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-hardened-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-hardened-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Timestamp of tree: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:16:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fforce-addr" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fforce-addr" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo http://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.romnet.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.romnet.org/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext acl amd64 bash-completion berkdb caps chroot cracklib crypt dri gd gdbm gmp gpm hardened ipv6 justify ldap midi multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl pam pcre perl pic readline sasl sse sse2 sse3 ssl tcpd unicode urandom vim-syntax xattr xcb xinetd xml xorg xprint zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
the X-related flags were not there yesterday, the rest is exactly the same
Well, your configuration is obviously incorrect, you are overwriting the DNS info and others yourself. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=4&chap=3#doc_chap4
