Running Applications without using a Name Service

Name services, such as the Domain Name Service (DNS), are used to resolve hostnames into their corresponding IP addresses. You can run simple IP applications over your PPP link without enabling a name service on your client; however, you need to know the IP address or hostname of your server. This is the remote IP address displayed in the connection window by ppptool, as shown in Figure 3-3.

Figure 3-3 Remote IP Address of Server

Once you are connected to the server, you can use Unix commands such as rlogin(1), rsh(1), telnet(1), and ftp(1) to access the resources of the remote network.