Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 10:31:49 +0200 From: flumiani@infotech.it To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sendmail ups the line? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19981001103149.007b7450@pop>
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hello everybody! I use a FredBSD box as a gateway to connect a LAN to Internet. To do this, i followed the PPP Primer. WHAT HAPPENS: If the PPP is working in the background (command ppp -auto -alias ips_connect_script) everytime an e-mail client as Eudora Light (also Elm on the same FreeBSD system) sends a message to local address (the same for non local addresses) makes the sendmail do a DNS request to identify the IP of the client's box. Becouse DNS is not on the LAN but on the internet, ppp dials out. Well, this is what i suppose :) Every other client i tested: ftp, telnet, pop3 and http doesn't act like that, both using local and remote clients on the LAN. If the ppp daemon doesn't listen in background sending mail from every email client works fine. I tryed to avoid this action programming sendmail.cf but nothing. Next my LAN, FreeBSD box configuration. Can someone help me? CONFIGURATIONS The LAN has 192.168.0.x IPs. (for now just 2 PCs) /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.sts-cast.it localhost 192.168.0.1 caronte.sts-cast.it caronte 192.168.0.1 caronte.sts-cast.it. 192.168.0.5 24h.sts-cast.it 24h /etc/host.conf hosts bind /etc/resolv.conf domain sts-cast.it nameserver 193.43.2.1 <-- This is the nameserver of my IPS dns.nettuno.it PPP.CONF AND SENDMAIL.CF Ask if you need it :) Thanks! Federico Flumiani -- Il mio email: flumiani@infotech.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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