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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:13:46 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Gary Hall <gary.hall@mcg-graphics.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Networking problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.02.9807300911120.18288-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <35BF50BB.C0AE8CDC@mcg-graphics.com>

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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Gary Hall wrote:

> Why, when FTP-ing from a PC to a FreeBSD machine, both on a local
> ethernet network, would the FreeBSD machine decide to dial the Internet
> ?

It's probably a DNS query causing the dialup. How have you set up the
DNS (or /etc/resolv.conf) on the FreeBSD box?
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