From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 14 18:46:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA03298 for current-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA03239 Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA14971; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:46:42 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604150216.LAA14971@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Need help setting up user ppp and dial-on demand To: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:46:41 +0930 (CST) Cc: current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at Apr 14, 96 02:31:57 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Eric J. Schwertfeger stands accused of saying: > > The problem seems to be that the system insists on having the PPP link up > before it will allow any traffic. Even "telnet 127.0.0.1" blocks until > the PPP link is established. Your name resolution setup is wrong. Make sure you have 'hosts' listed before 'bind' in /etc/host.conf, and that all of your hosts and all their aliases are named in /etc/hosts. You might also want to configure a caching-only nameserver. Consult the 'named' manpage and the O'Reilly "DNS and Bind" book for details on this. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[