From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 9 09:08:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA18414 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:08:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org (nomis.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA18336 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:08:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@nomis.Simon-Shapiro.ORG) Received: (qmail 20894 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Jan 1998 17:09:07 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-010198 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199801091027.KAA04748@ifb.net> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 09:09:07 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Wayne G Boyd Subject: RE: PPP problems Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 09-Jan-98 Wayne G Boyd wrote: > I have just gone through the procedure for setting up user PPP client > support in my installation of FreeBSD. The idea is to have the > machine dial my ISP on demand (ie. whenever there is traffic for the > net), and everything seems to work fine. But the problem is that it > insists on dialing out each time I try to make a Telnet or Ftp to the > FreeBSD box from another computer on our LAN. > > Can you offer any advice ? A firewall? Routing? Is your DNS on the outside? Every time you REFER TO host.at.doamin, there is a DNS transaction that thranslates it to 1.2.3.4. > > Thanks for your help. > > Wayne. > -- > Wayne G Boyd, Digital Systems Manager > JCE (Aberdeen) Ltd > Tel: +44 (0)1224 772030 > Fax: +44 (0)1224 772002 ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313