From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 19:15:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10785 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 19:15:37 -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 TAA10763 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 19:15:24 -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 VAA13289 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:15:22 -0600 (CST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id VAA00754; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:09:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:09:49 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199802150309.VAA00754@zuhause.mn.org> From: Bruce Albrecht To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ppp.linkdown, sendmail and named X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It looks to me like sendmail is trying to do a reverse DNS lookup on my PPP gateway, which causes my system to dial up the ISP when I receive mail through UUCP. Is there anything I can put in the ppp.linkdown that might prevent this from happening? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message