From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 7:31:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A25837B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 07:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F46443E5E for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 07:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6DEVKbo022036; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:31:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6DEVFMP022035; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:31:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:31:15 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Paulo Roberto Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named initial lookup? Message-ID: <20020713143115.GA21994@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20020713133138.78572.qmail@web14914.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020713133138.78572.qmail@web14914.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message