Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:57:26 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> Cc: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail and ppp -auto Message-ID: <199709272257.XAA06540@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:10:55 %2B0200." <199709272210.AAA13087@bitbox.follo.net>
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> >
> > I just started using ppp -auto, and whenever sendmail starts up or I
> > get any new mail, ppp connects to my ISP. How do I trace this? I
> > don't know how. Is there something I should add to my sendmail
> > configuration?
>
> You need to add -DNAMED_BIND=0 to your sendmail compilation. (Yeah,
> this mean you have to recompile sendmail. Doing that together with
> having a FEATURE(nodns)dnl in the sendmail.mc file is the only way
> I've found to stop this).
>
> Eivind.
Or you could just set some dfilters for port 25 & 53 in ppp.conf.
Check out the FAQ section 10 for details (and a DNS example).
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
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