From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 22 07:49:06 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA01465 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 07:49:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01458 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 07:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA05718; Fri, 22 Dec 1995 08:45:24 -0700 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 08:45:24 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199512221545.IAA05718@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: phil@zipmail.co.uk Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iijppp dialing when I run tcsh ?????? In-Reply-To: <199512221320.NAA22340@wbsmail.zipmail.co.uk> References: <199512221320.NAA22340@wbsmail.zipmail.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On my PC at home I am running FreeBSD 2.1R and iijppp with auto-dial > enabled. Everything works fine if I use sh/csh/bash but as soon as I > run tcsh (which was my login shell) iijppp dials ! > > The shell will then only come up after a connection is established. That's because of a bug in older versions of tcsh which cause it to do a reverse DNS on the host. This is fixed in newer versions of tcsh, and the tcsh package on the CD and/or ftp site. Upgrade to a newer version and the problem will go away. Nate