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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:54:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>
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Subject: Re: keeping DNS lookups local
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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