From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 8 07:33:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA29945 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 07:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chess.inetspace.com ([206.50.163.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA29939 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 07:33:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kgor@localhost) by chess.inetspace.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA02487; Thu, 8 May 1997 09:31:16 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 09:31:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199705081431.JAA02487@chess.inetspace.com> From: "Kent S. Gordon" To: steve@visint.co.uk CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Stephen Roome on Thu, 8 May 1997 11:39:48 +0100 (BST)) Subject: Re: tun0 problem in 3.0-970209-SNAP Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "steve" == Stephen Roome writes: > [snipped current out of cc: list as what I'm asking now isn't > current specific.] > Okay, from here I have a problem: I have a modem connected to > this machine and it runs the following ppp -alias -auto > myprovider > This all works fine and the modem starts up whenever the network > is needed as expected and it aliases properly so I have a > gateway for other boxes needing net access. > Unfortunately just mailing anyone locally sets off a dialup > though. Let me guess /etc/resolv.conf points to a machine at your provider. Set up a local caching DNS ( or local secondary for your domain) to stop this. sendmail is doing a DNS lookup before processing the mail. Sendmail could also be reconfigured to not do DNS lookups, but I would suggest the caching DNS server approach. Kent S. Gordon Senior Software Engineer iNetSpace Co. voice: (972)851-3494 fax:(972)702-0384 e-mail:kgor@inetspace.com