Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:54:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping DNS lookups local Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129215346.1248y-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <86zpke38pb.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>
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On 29 Jan 1998, Don Croyle wrote: > 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? Make sure you aren't running named, since it will override resolv.conf. 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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