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Subject: Re: Configuration Question
To: relyod@indigo.ie (Michael Doyle)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:57:45 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980129130906.00937710@pop.indigo.ie> from Michael Doyle at "Jan 29, 98 01:09:06 pm"
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In a previous message, Michael Doyle said:
> I have set a PC up as a mail server for my company.
> Setup:
>   *  It allows users to connect via Eudora (using the "popper" server)
>      and send and recieve mail. 
>   *  It connects to the ISP by "dial on demand"
>      user level PPP, with a script "ondemand" in ppp.conf , invoked in
> rc.local
>      with the command line "ppp -auto ondemand"
> 
> The "glitch" I'm seeing is that any time a user tries to connect, (or I try
> to telnet) to the server in question, it dials out if the connection is down.
> I.E. it seems to dial the ISP not only when there's outbound traffic, but also
> any time there's traffic on the local link (the ethernet card)
> 
> Any suggestions regarding what I might have configured wrong?
> If anyone wants to help, I would send the detailed configuration files to 
> them, rather than clog up the  mailing list with the files. :-)


Run tcpdump on tun0 to see what's going out. I'm going to guess it's
a DNS query.


> Mike
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