From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 09:20:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18611 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:20:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18582 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:20:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-146.laker.net [208.0.233.46]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id MAA31731; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:20:12 -0400 Message-Id: <199810161620.MAA31731@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "francisco@natserv.com" , "Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:19:16 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: PPP -bacground redials after timeout Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Oct 98 14:34:01 +0200, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: >check out processes which **LOVE** to stay connected to the Internet (eg >sendmail which likes to resolve your numeric IP address) Setup a local DNS to prevent this, it's easy with FreeBSD... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message