From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 15 02:14:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06785 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 02:14:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA06780 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 02:14:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA10714; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 10:07:33 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199802151007.KAA10714@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Bruce Albrecht cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp.linkdown, sendmail and named In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:09:49 CST." <199802150309.VAA00754@zuhause.mn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 10:07:33 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It looks to me like sendmail is trying to do a reverse DNS lookup on my > PPP gateway, which causes my system to dial up the ISP when I receive > mail through UUCP. Is there anything I can put in the ppp.linkdown > that might prevent this from happening? There's some stuff in http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html about this. Your options are limited. The only real way is to create your own DNS and resolve stuff like this for sendmail. You may also want to use ``deferred'' delivery mode in sendmail, but this will screw up any spam filtering you've got, and will also avoid processing incoming mail (which is ok if you're popping it anyway). -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message