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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:52:19 -0500
From:      "Darryl Hoar" <darryl@osborne-ind.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   DNS & PPP Question
Message-ID:  <000c01bf09e2$97a90a80$070101c0@ruraltel.net>

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Greetings,
we have a 3.2 box.  We use it as a gateway to the internet. It is used to
automatically
dialup the link, and also to do IP aliasing.  We are using the userland PPP.
We have
been having some problems since our ISP put in 56K modems.  The behavior is:
after using the internet from win9x boxes for a variable amount of time, the
link
seems to hang.  IE, ping from the win9x box yields "request timed out".  Log
into
the Freebsd box, ping the ip address of the ISP' DNS server, and it hangs
with no
response.  BTW, If I try to telnet to the Freebsd, it never yields the login
prompt.
After a while (never the same amount of time), it 'comes back' and starts
working.

I have seen this on my 2.2.6 box with a different modem.

Should the domain name of the Freebsd box be the same as the ISP's domain ?

The ISP claims everything is AOK.  The ppp log looks unremarkable.

I'm not sure what to do next.  Ideas ?


Darryl Hoar



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