Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:31:15 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named initial lookup? Message-ID: <20020713143115.GA21994@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020713133138.78572.qmail@web14914.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020713133138.78572.qmail@web14914.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:31:36AM -0700, Paulo Roberto wrote:
> I have a on-demand link configured in freebsd, and every time the
> system boots, when named starts, it sends a packet to the fake ip
> (sticky route) port 53 (I made a firewall rule to block everything and
> log so I could find what was going on) and initiates the dial.
> Is it an initial check up from bind? Is there a way to disable this?
> I even added this address to my database as localhost, so it wouldn?t
> look this address up, put it did not worked, it still starts the dial.
Could well be sendmail --- it does a bit of DNS work to establish it's
own identity when it starts up. Unfortunately you can't fake it via
/etc/hosts as sendmail bypasses that and uses the DNS directly.
Cheers,
Matthew
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