Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 20:24:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: StevenR362@aol.com Subject: Re: ppp+alias -auto &spurious dialups. Message-ID: <199612071924.UAA22017@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <961205234751_1286997857@emout01.mail.aol.com> from "StevenR362@aol.com" at "Dec 5, 96 11:47:52 pm"
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As StevenR362@aol.com wrote: > Now what do I have to filter or disable to get it to stop dialing > out four times an hour. From recent postings to hackers, I suspect > sendmail is the culprit. tcpdump your tun0 interface, to see which packets are triggering it. I hope you've told sendmail to never use a nameserver (FEATURE(nodns) and FEATURE(nocanonify)), as well as changed /etc/host.conf to prefer hosts over bind? (A local nameserver is certainly less painful anyway.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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