From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 19:16:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA17116 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 19:16:11 -0700 Received: from legend (legend.txdirect.net [204.57.120.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA17110 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 19:16:09 -0700 Received: from oasis (link095) by legend (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA15301; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 21:12:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 21:13:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@oasis To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcp strangness In-Reply-To: <9507060057.AA13133@cs.weber.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Jul 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > given: > > > > lost <--- lp0 ---> oasis <--- ppp -auto / tun0 ---> ISP > > > > No gateway. lost only knows about oasis, oasis knows lost & ISP > > host before bind, ifconfig'ed both lp0's, no static routes. > > The following: > > > > rsnow@lost% rcp crap oasis:~/crap.test > > > > causes oasis to dial ISP. Huhhh? > > Name service resoloution order and is lost in local hosts, please? lost & oasis are defined in host files on both machines. *********************************** /etc/hosts on oasis (identical on lost) *********************************** # hosts,v 1.5 1995/04/09 09:54:39 rgrimes Exp 127.0.0.1 localhost 204.57.120.200 oasis oasis.txdirect.net 204.57.120.201 lost lost.txdirect.net *********************************** /etc/resolv.conf on oasis *********************************** domain txdirect.net nameserver 204.57.120.6 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ This nameserver is indeed remote (ppp). However if I dont put it here I cant find ANYONE not in hosts. --- Rob Snow rsnow@txdirect.net