Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:27:23 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Dan Mahoney <danm@danmahoney.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dialing Out? Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.990118110300.375A-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.990117042816.12542A-100000@bookworm>
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On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Dan Mahoney wrote:
> Hi. I'm using pine on my home BSD machine, and I notice that it forces my
> ppp connection open whenever I launch pine. Is there any reason for this,
> and is there any way to quell this behavior?
Pine is doing a DNS lookup on startup. There may be a Pine option which
can stop this.
Otherwise make sure that /etc/hosts contains a reference to the fqdn of
the system, and make sure that "hosts" is before "bind" in /etc/host.conf.
PS. when sending to mailing lists as well managed as the FreeBSD lists,
you are much more likely to get a reply if a real address is used. While
the occasional piece of spam does come through, it is now quite rare.
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