This file is indexed.

/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0000usepeerdns is in ppp 2.4.5-5ubuntu1.

This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o755.

The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.

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#!/bin/sh -e

# this variable is only set if the usepeerdns pppd option is being used
[ "$USEPEERDNS" ] || exit 0

# exit if the resolvconf package is installed
[ -x /sbin/resolvconf ] && exit 0

# create the file if it does not exist
if [ ! -e /etc/resolv.conf ]; then
  : > /etc/resolv.conf
fi

# follow any symlink to find the real file
REALRESOLVCONF=$(readlink --canonicalize /etc/resolv.conf)

# merge the new nameservers with the other options from the old configuration
{
  cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf
  grep --invert-match '^nameserver[[:space:]]' "$REALRESOLVCONF" || true
} > "$REALRESOLVCONF.tmp"

# backup the old configuration and install the new one
cp -a "$REALRESOLVCONF" "$REALRESOLVCONF.pppd-backup.$PPP_IFACE"
mv -f "$REALRESOLVCONF.tmp" "$REALRESOLVCONF"

# restart nscd because resolv.conf has changed
if [ -e /var/run/nscd.pid ]; then
  /etc/init.d/nscd restart || true
fi

exit 0