Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 05:22:26 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ppp -auto is trigger-happy Message-ID: <199910060422.FAA04816@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Oct 1999 23:23:00 BST." <37FA7A44.9290918B@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
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> Brian Somers wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:25:48AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Richard Morte wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Can anyone help explain why ppp in -auto -alias mode dials out as soon > > > > > as I click in the location field in Netscape? Do I need to set up IP > > > > > filtering? Without some sort of filtering or additional configuration I > > > > > don't seem to be able to browse documents on the local machine without > > > > > accessing the modem. > > > > > > > > Netscape does a DNS lookup the very first chance it gets. This will > > > > cause a dialout, unless you've blocked DNS from activating a callout. > > > > > > > I'm having the same problems. In fact, even starting the enlightenment config program causes ppp -auto to dial up. Same thing when sending mail from within mutt. Even though I have told sendmail to queue messages (sendmail -0 DeliveryMode=d -O HoldExpensive). Actually what it does is dial up, then stick them in the queue without delivering them. I assume that these are also caused because of DNS lookups. > > > > > > > > > So anyway, I'd really like to be disable DNS lookups from causing ppp -auto to dial. How can I do this? I assume that I want to re-enable DNS in ppp.linkup. > > > > > > Thanks a ton, > > > Tiller > > > > You may want to stick your hostname in /etc/hosts - blocking DNS is > > probably the wrong way to go as it'll make on-demand dialing > > practically useless. > > > > Look into ``ndc'' to find out what's being looked up and put this > > stuff in /etc/hosts if you can :-) > > -- > > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> > > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Brian, > > Thanks for your reply. I'm not at all familiar with ndc's output so I > guess you are referring to the stuff output by dumpdb - only there's so > much of it. However, I've been running named with the -d1 flag and this > seems to pick up all the requests in named.run. This sounds like the best option :-) > When Netscape was first installed, it reported that it couldn't find the > host for 'home. netscape.com' (or something like this). I assume > Netscape is configured to 'phone home, if only for the Netscape server > to set a cookie... I believe this is just the default home page. > I cannot detect any current dns lookups for netscape.com. However, the > following lookups are made when Netscape starts up now (output from > named.run): > > news.force9.net > usenet.force9.net > usenet.plus.net.uk > mail.force9.net > relay.force9.net > > These are all for Messenger. They are produced as soon as the browser > alone starts up (without even starting Mesenger). Since my ISP provides > server-assigned addresses I am not sure I can put any of this stuff in > /etc/hosts because the IP addresses change with each new connection. > > What do you suggest/ Hmm, maybe you need to run your own local mail relay and news server... > many Thanks, > > Ric -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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