From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 14:52:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA10018 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:52:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from nero.in-design.com (root@nero.in-design.com [204.157.146.146]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA10012 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:52:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archive@localhost) by nero.in-design.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14765; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:52:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:52:46 -0500 (EST) From: Intuitive Design Archive To: Bill Nutt cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -auto problem? on 2.1.5-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <199703172121.VAA00571@typhoon.dial.pipex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Bill Nutt wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently running 2.1.5-R (yes I know I need to upgrade ASAP!) and have > set up > ppp to run on auto. As soon as I do a: > > ppp -auto > > the machine dials out, even though I have nothing running which I think > needs to send a packet. > > If I do a , ppp redials to my provider after a few seconds. > Is this normal and expected? i.e. On startup must the machine request info > from elsewhere? > > Sorry for asking this, but after the security holes found recently, I hope > you won't think me too paranoid!! > ( I previously had problems with logins failing, but I believe I traced > this successfully to XF86-3.2 screwing up my keyboard map) > > btw, > my machine knows its FQDN from /etc/hosts since I've told it to look there > before trying DNS. > > thanks in advance, > > --Bill > How about sendmail? Is that being demoned? Intuitive Design Archive http://www.in-design.com archive@in-design.com