From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 21:14:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14626 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:14:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14618 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:14:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA01485; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:14:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Rick Knebel cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -auto In-Reply-To: <19980128195611.05220@cabbage.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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