From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 20:14:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05390 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:14:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw1-46.fwi.com [207.113.68.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05355 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:14:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA12581; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:09:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: keeping DNS lookups local Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 29 Jan 1998 23:08:16 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best Message-ID: <86zpke38pb.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I'm working on a second FreeBSD box to my home network (currently this machine and a Win95 game box) and I've run into a problem. Things like ftp, rlogin and ssh are insisting that the ppp link to my ISP be up in order to get started. Once the local connection is working they don't need the link to the outside world any more. Filtering DNS lookups to keep them from causing ppp to dial out just causes the problem programs to hang. I've got hosts ahead of bind in /etc/hosts.conf on both machines, the appropriate entries in /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf on this machine (the gateway, and the only one running named) has nameserver 127.0.0.1 listed ahead of my ISPs nameservers. Any suggestions? -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, | Usenet II -- because but I've never quite been ready to make | it's time for October the commitment. | http://www.usenet2.org