From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 9 10:45:43 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA28013 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:45:43 -0700 Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA28001 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:45:42 -0700 Received: (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/PHILMAIL-1.11) id KAA28538; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:43:50 -0700 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:43:47 -0700 From: Richard Chang To: Joerg Wunsch cc: jleppek@harris.com, FreeBSD-current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: ppp still not working In-Reply-To: <199504090816.KAA05591@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Apr 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > As Richard Chang wrote: > > > > > > bigbang# cat /etc/host.conf > > # $Id: host.conf,v 1.2 1993/11/07 01:02:57 wollman Exp $ > > # Default is to use the nameserver first > > hosts > > bind > > If you care to modify the default sequence, please do yourself a > favour and modify the comments, too. :) > > But since you make /etc/hosts getting a higher priority than DNS > (normally a bad idea), you should also make sure your /etc/hosts is > really valid all the time. This isn't perchance your problem? > I don't think it is because when I use slip, it's fine... But with ppp, I can only telnet back to the annex server but even if I just typed the IPs, it would still just say network is down or something when it really isn't. > I'm not running PPP (SLIP only), but i've preferred to use another > approach: local nameserver (mostly caching-only), and use numerical > addresses for everything to get SLIP started. I think this is cleaner > and avoids potential problems from old cruft in /etc/hosts (which is > actually not even needed). I had to make my nameserver a (private) > secondary of the local domain and local IN-ADDR.ARPA domain, in order > to have it provide authoritative data even if the link is down. > That is a good idea but I don't know how to setup a nameserver :-) > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > --richardc