From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 9 01:25:46 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA11689 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 01:25:46 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA11617 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 01:24:39 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA27896; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:24:16 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id KAA29216; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:24:08 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA05591; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:16:20 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504090816.KAA05591@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ppp still not working To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:16:20 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jleppek@harris.com, FreeBSD-current@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 8, 95 01:37:48 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1102 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Chang wrote: > > > bigbang# cat /etc/host.conf > # $Id: host.conf,v 1.2 1993/11/07 01:02:57 wollman Exp $ > # Default is to use the nameserver first > hosts > bind If you care to modify the default sequence, please do yourself a favour and modify the comments, too. :) But since you make /etc/hosts getting a higher priority than DNS (normally a bad idea), you should also make sure your /etc/hosts is really valid all the time. This isn't perchance your problem? I'm not running PPP (SLIP only), but i've preferred to use another approach: local nameserver (mostly caching-only), and use numerical addresses for everything to get SLIP started. I think this is cleaner and avoids potential problems from old cruft in /etc/hosts (which is actually not even needed). I had to make my nameserver a (private) secondary of the local domain and local IN-ADDR.ARPA domain, in order to have it provide authoritative data even if the link is down. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)