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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:49:30 +0200
From:      Artem Okounev <aokounev@yahoo.com>
To:        Thomas Fiebig <tfie@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp dials out at boot time
Message-ID:  <12620048708.20021028154930@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DBD3BC5.E5C600B6@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
References:  <3DBD3BC5.E5C600B6@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>

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Hello Thomas,

Monday, October 28, 2002, 3:29:41 PM, you wrote:

> I've configured ppp as auto dial on demand. My resolv.conf
> contains the adresses of my ISP's nameservers. In addition
> I've an LAN interface (fxp0) with no LAN behind it.

> In  rc.conf  I've  configured  the  LAN interface as "inet
> 192.168.1.1  netmask  255.255.255.0",  in  /etc/hosts I've
> assigned  the hostname "r2d2" to 192.168.1.1. The hostname
> is  introduced  in  rc.conf. In /etc/host.conf I implement
> first  /etc/hosts  to  look for name<->address resolution,
> then use bind.

> In  this  configuration,  it  seems  to  me,  that the LAN
> interface introduces a dial out, after the ifconfig during
> the boot, to resolve the address of the interface, instead
> of  using  the  /etc/hosts  file.  If  I  comment  out the
> ifconfig  line  in  rc.conf,  it  doesn't  take  place any
> longer. The same happens if I comment out the bind line in
> /etc/host.conf,  but  then  no  dns  request is solved and
> answered any longer.

> So, what is the sense of the ifconfig dialing out? What do
> I  made wrong with that? I think my private network number
> can not be resolved anywhere, or am I wrong?

Are  you  sure  that  ifconfig  is  dialing  out? By default
sendmail  do  DNS  lookup on startup. If you enabled another
network daemons (e.g. xntpd) then they also want DNS.

- --
Best regards,
 Artem                            mailto:aokounev@yahoo.com
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