From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 10:48:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA08063 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy2.ba.best.com (root@proxy2.ba.best.com [206.184.139.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA08039 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy2.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id KAA03712; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:40:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:39:05 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC cc: Doug Russell , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetchmail nolonger working In-Reply-To: <199703261727.KAA23598@xmission.xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > 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. FWIW, I still consider myself a newbie, but when Fetchmail was not working I could still telnet to both servers and 'surf' the web (using lynx, I'm still waiting for UPS to find my house to deliver Xinside). From my limited understanding, if a route to the outside world didn't exist, then why would everything else work, but not Fetchmail under the same conditions? Oh, BTW, I'm using 3.0-current (last CVSUPed date is 97.02.10.00.00.00) > > 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." see my comments above --- Brought to you by a 100% Micro$oft free system. You too can disinfect your system at http://www.freebsd.org E-Mail: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com Alternate E-Mail: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley (permanently under construction)