From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 13:58:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC1237B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:58:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D6043EB2 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:58:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <2003012221583205300lpmose>; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:58:32 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB5348463; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:59:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "FreeBSD Questions" , "Louis LeBlanc" Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:00:02 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <20030122174911.GC95122@keyslapper.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: PPP strangeness - hosed my /etc/hosts file Message-Id: <20030122215957.3CB5348463@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:49:12 -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: >Hey all. I've been with Verizon DSL for 3 or 4 months now, and just >when I think I'm getting things right, I start seeing some really >screwy behavior. ifconfig shows the following for the PPP interface >(tun0) >tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1492 > inet6 fe80::2a0:c9ff:fe74:12a3%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 > inet 68.160.2.89 --> 10.9.64.1 netmask 0xff000000 > inet 68.160.25.67 --> 10.9.76.1 netmask 0xff000000 > Opened by PID 67 > >The weird thing is that the first IP is not valid. I'm sure this is >not supposed to be the case, but I don't know how I should fix it. My >/etc/hosts and httpd.conf files were hosed because of it, so I'm going >to have to figure out how to spot this problem in the scripts, and at >least warn about it, if not fix it on the fly. sounds like your being assigned a new ip address and not getting the routing cleared. on dialup, i add this: /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup /etc/ppp/ppp.linkdown and add CONNECTIONNAME: <-- change to your connection name iface clear and that does the trick for me.. with dialup, ez-ipupdate would grab the first one (which was the previous IP) and send it in wrong --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message