Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 16:26:23 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: tbeaucha@gladstone.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -auto is trigger-happy Message-ID: <199910041526.QAA02841@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:47:11 PDT." <19990928234711.C441@agent00ds.uoregon.edu>
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> On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:25:48AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Richard Morte wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can anyone help explain why ppp in -auto -alias mode dials out as soon
> > > as I click in the location field in Netscape? Do I need to set up IP
> > > filtering? Without some sort of filtering or additional configuration I
> > > don't seem to be able to browse documents on the local machine without
> > > accessing the modem.
> >
> > Netscape does a DNS lookup the very first chance it gets. This will
> > cause a dialout, unless you've blocked DNS from activating a callout.
> >
> I'm having the same problems. In fact, even starting the enlightenment config program causes ppp -auto to dial up. Same thing when sending mail from within mutt. Even though I have told sendmail to queue messages (sendmail -0 DeliveryMode=d -O HoldExpensive). Actually what it does is dial up, then stick them in the queue without delivering them. I assume that these are also caused because of DNS lookups.
>
>
> So anyway, I'd really like to be disable DNS lookups from causing ppp -auto to dial. How can I do this? I assume that I want to re-enable DNS in ppp.linkup.
>
> Thanks a ton,
> Tiller
You may want to stick your hostname in /etc/hosts - blocking DNS is
probably the wrong way to go as it'll make on-demand dialing
practically useless.
Look into ``ndc'' to find out what's being looked up and put this
stuff in /etc/hosts if you can :-)
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