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Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 1995 08:45:24 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
To:        phil@zipmail.co.uk
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: iijppp dialing when I run tcsh ??????
Message-ID:  <199512221545.IAA05718@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199512221320.NAA22340@wbsmail.zipmail.co.uk>
References:  <199512221320.NAA22340@wbsmail.zipmail.co.uk>

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> 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



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