From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 18:10:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01664 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:10:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01600 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:10:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from quisqueya.natserv.com (TC2-dial-72-142.oldslip.inch.com [207.240.142.72]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA08724; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:09:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810170109.VAA08724@federation.addy.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199810161620.MAA31731@laker.net> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:10:17 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: francisco@natserv.com From: Francisco Reyes To: Steve Friedrich Subject: RE: PPP -bacground redials after timeout Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Oct-98 Steve Friedrich wrote: > 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. Thanks for the feedback and I have plans to setup a local DNS. However what I am looking for is WHY ppp dialed. Notice I am not using ppp in auto mode. I am using it background mode. >From what I understand of the man page, and please correct me if wrong, background mode becomes a daemon if it connects. It doesn't mention anything about re-dialing if connection is dropped. I understand auto is supposed connect every time there is a packet. Does background has this behavior too? For instance if I use pppctl and do a "close" on ppp. It not only drops the connection, but terminates ppp also. ---- francisco@natserv.com The power to serve. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message