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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:14:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Rick Knebel <rknebel@csrlink.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp -auto
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129211313.1248b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980128195611.05220@cabbage.com>

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On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Rick Knebel wrote:

> Hi,
> I have ppp -auto set up using pmdemand they way it says in the howto's.
> I have one question.
> On boot up when the senmail daemon starts, my bootup stops until I connect
> to my ISP.
> Is this the way it is supposed to work

That's the way it will work.  The sendmail waits until it can do a host
name lookup, which causes the dialout.  Once the dialout finishes, it can
do the DNS lookup, then it's happy.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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