No, I hadn't done that.

It was failing with (from /var/log/messages):

Jul  1 23:40:21 starwolf pppd[530]: pppd 2.3.0b5 started by root, uid 0
Jul  1 23:40:21 starwolf routed[156]: Send sendto(ppp0, 207.33.232.1.520): Network is down
Jul  1 23:40:21 starwolf pppd[530]: local  IP address 207.33.232.91
Jul  1 23:40:21 starwolf pppd[530]: remote IP address 207.33.232.1
Jul  1 23:40:55 starwolf pppd[530]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttya
Jul  1 23:42:36 starwolf routed[156]: static route 0.0.0.0 --> 207.33.232.91 impossibly lacks ifp
Jul  1 23:43:21 starwolf pppd[530]: Connection terminated.
Jul  1 23:43:23 starwolf routed[156]: interface ppp0 to 207.33.232.1 turned off
Jul  1 23:43:23 starwolf pppd[530]: Couldn't delete default route: No such process
Jul  1 23:43:38 starwolf pppd[558]: pppd 2.3.0b5 started by root, uid 0
Jul  1 23:43:38 starwolf routed[156]: Send sendto(ppp0, 207.33.232.1.520): Network is down
Jul  1 23:43:38 starwolf pppd[558]: local  IP address 207.33.232.91
Jul  1 23:43:38 starwolf pppd[558]: remote IP address 207.33.232.1
Jul  1 23:44:13 starwolf pppd[564]: pppd 2.3.0b5 started by root, uid 0

pppd was refusing to install a default route; named wasn't able to service
requests and routed was bitching up a storm about not being able
to get from here to there.

Currently, I have routed turned off, and mygate is

207.33.232.91

(i.e. this end of the ppp interface).

I have reinstalled the defaultroute option in /etc/ppp/options, and
deleted the route add/delete default statements from /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.



				--*greywolf;
--
I'm really a software toolsmith and a musician by trade, but nobody really
needs a software toolsmith much, and the music industry is so cutthroat
that it would probably do me in.  So I do systems administration on the
side as a hobby.  Funny that my hobby finds more work than either of my
professions...