From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 20:59:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27836 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:59:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27829 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:59:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA27675; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:55:24 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:55:23 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Tony Simaz cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Dialup In-Reply-To: <199808110230.WAA15904@garcon.qtm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Tony Simaz wrote: > I have set up FreeBSD 2.2.6 to be a server on my home net. It > works great. I have not enabled firewall services yet but that is > coming. I do have one small problem. The server dials out at what > seems to be random times. I have found that it dials when I boot > my workstation to NT. But this is not the only time it dials. The > server is in my bedroom and at 3:00 am I hear it dial out and > connect to my ISP. That'd be nameserver queries causing it to dial out. The /etc/daily script has a `netstat -i' in it somewhere that'd cause it to happen. I do not have Sendmail running. At first I > thought it was Sendmail so I shut it down as I wasn't using it > anyway. Sendmail is notorious for doing heaps of nameserver queries as well.. -- Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message