From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 17:13:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA01458 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA01440 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:12:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA14857; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:49:59 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199711180049.AAA14857@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Kwoody cc: Doug White , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: tcpdump and tun0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:23:15 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:49:59 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I run ppp -auto -alias and ppp tries to connect when there are no > > > process's that ( I think) trying to call it and therefor dial out. > > > > sendmail is probably trying to do a nameserver lookup. Try setting the > > dfilter to block DNS lookups. > > Would that be: > > O DeliveryMode=delay > > in sendmail.cf? Or is there a command line arg that I can HUP sendmail with? This, and you'll probably need FEATURE(nocanonify) and FEATURE(nodns). Check out the ppp FAQ http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html which points at http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/ispmail.html [.....] -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....