From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 15 20:25:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14935 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:25:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14930 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id WAA02957 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:25:25 -0600 (CST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA11293; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:18:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bruce) From: Bruce Albrecht MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <13903.42895.850081.788100@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:18:23 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ppp -auto question X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Before I upgraded to a current -current (previously running -current from 12/97, now 11/11/98), when my ppp -auto disconnected, I set up my ppp.linkdown to delete the old default route and set the default route to a non-existant ip (10.0.2.20) that was the gateway ip address for the now inactive ppp link. The ppp.conf file had set ifaddr 10.0.2.15/0 10.0.2.20/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 The ppp.linkdown had MYADDR: delete default add default 10.0.2.20 This worked really well, as sendmail would try to do a name lookup on the link and I had 10.0.2.20 known to my local named. However, with the way ppp works now, sendmail does a name lookup on the ip address of the now inactive link, which forces ppp to reconnect to the ISP if named has invalidated the IP from its cache. Is there any way to get the old behaviour to work again? When I did a little fiddling around with it, I either would get complaints about the default route already existing or it wouldn't dial out after the first time. Any suggestions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message