From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 7:13:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5499F37B42C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:13:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from 3web.net ([209.115.233.89]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GBZRHX00.UX9 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 08:13:09 -0600 Received: by rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (EzMTS MTSAgent 1.22b Service) ; Wed, 18 Apr 01 08:12:16 -0600 for Received: from 3web.net (10.0.0.2) by rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (EzMTS MTSSmtp 1.23f Service) ; Wed, 18 Apr 01 07:34:40 -0600 for Received: by mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:34:15 -0600 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:34:13 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Alvin Sim Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Re[2]: stop ppp dialing on boot Message-ID: <20010418073412.A216997@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Alvin Sim , FreeBSD Questions References: <395951968.20010418112232@yahoo.co.uk> <20010418112258.A7234@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <1076649851.20010418195315@yahoo.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1076649851.20010418195315@yahoo.co.uk>; from "Alvin Sim" on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:53:15PM X-Envelope-Receiver: , Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:53:15PM +0800, Alvin Sim wrote: > Wednesday, April 18, 2001, 06:22:58 PM, Rasputin wrote: > > R> * Alvin Sim [010418 04:20]: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> i have been searching around for a way to stop ppp from dialing when > >> the machine boots up but so far, i cannot say that i have found an > >> answer. hopefully someone here can help me out :) > > R> Find out what's bringing up the line. > R> Chances are one of your daemons does a DNS test or similar when it starts up. > > this just might be it but... how do i see which is starting up the > dns test search? i have `inetd' disabled in rc.conf and the only > thing thats in /usr/local/etc/rc.d are: I seem to recall from the time I went through this exercise, that "sendmail" was the culprit doing DNS lookups. I believe that i cured the problem by disabling 'dns' in ppp.conf. Check the mailing list archives - I'm sure that there is *lots* of material on this issue. Later... -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message