From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 09:27:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27206 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:27:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA27188 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:27:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id KAA23598; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:27:03 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199703261727.KAA23598@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Fetchmail nolonger working To: drussell@saturn-tech.com (Doug Russell) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:27:03 -0700 (MST) Cc: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug Russell" at Mar 25, 97 07:35:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Burton Sampley recently asked: % Thanks for the help. Yes I do have senmail running. I just solved this % problem. I looked in the /etc/sysconfig file and noticed that routed was % NOT running. I changed the line from router="NO" to router=routed and % rebooted the machine. Surpirse, now fetchmail works. Doug responded: > Hmm... This shouldn't have fixed anything, as far as I can think of, > anyway. What version of FreeBSD are you running? I can't remember the > start of this thread anymore. :) Sounds like Burton is not adding a default address when the PPP link comes up. If you're using a single PPP link as your connection to the net, you need to turn off routed and modify your PPP configuration to add a default router through the PPP connection whenever it comes up. Search the mail archives for help with this; it was discussed to death in Jan and Feb of this year. > I use fetchmail here on hobbes (which runs 2.2-BETA) without any routing > software loaded, and it works fine. If I remember right you were running > something fairly recent, but I can't remember what. > > Still doesn't explain why it didn't work without routed... No route to the "real world." -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com