Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:15:38 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: "Paul Skinner" <paulskin@icon.co.za>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2 queries when I use my freebsd box as a dial-up router Message-ID: <006901bf5e3d$c2c6fce0$0200000a@danco.home>
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>I have two questions...firstly how do I stop the system from not only >trying to dial when I attempt to access the server itself and not >needing to dial. I setup a simple ppp filter in ppp.conf to deny it >access to the dialer when I telnet into the server and it won't let me >use telnet until its dialed in.... I ran into similar problems when I first got started with FreeBSD about a year ago... Most likey, what's triggering your dial-ups are DNS lookups. You can stop the majority of seemingly-random DNS lookups, without having to run a DNS server, by making sure all the computers on your LAN are listed in /etc/hosts. If you are running xntpd, you can stop it from causing a dialout using ppp's filters: # Prevent NTP (123) from causing a dialup: set filter dial 0 deny udp src eq 123 set filter dial 1 deny udp dst eq 123 set filter dial 2 permit 0 0 Take a look at inetd.conf and see what other servers are enabled, and do a 'ps aux' to see what daemons are running. You may find other programs which also from time-to-time do DNS lookups (sendmail is notorious for this). Try the /etc/hosts thing...hopefully, it will make your life a little quieter! --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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