From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 03:25:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA12567 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 03:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.iafrica.com (chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA12561 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 03:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from khetan@localhost) by chain (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA01240; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 12:03:44 +0200 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 12:03:43 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: John Brann cc: freeq Subject: Re: PPP on demand. In-Reply-To: <199604210433.AAA01093@jbrann.dialup.access.net> 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 Sun, 21 Apr 1996, John Brann wrote: > I've just gone back over this mail, and I have a bad feeling about the > 'hosts' line above. You have a dial-up connection to an ISP, right? Yup. > according to nslookup, 'chain.iafrica.com' is IP address 196.7.74.174. But > you are telling your machine that it's 127.0.0.1. I suspect that packets Ok - done! > caching-only named yesterday on my system, to reduce name resolution traffic, I have disabled routed, as suggested by someone else. --- Khetan Gajjar Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ Pipex-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002