From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 30 21:41:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA02180 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enterprise.ufp.com (richardl.vip.best.com [206.86.219.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA02170 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardl@localhost) by enterprise.ufp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA00405; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707310440.VAA00405@enterprise.ufp.com> From: Richard Levenberg To: bkogawa@primenet.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199707300845.BAA03931@foo.primenet.com> (bkogawa@primenet.com) Subject: Re: My FreeBSD gateway machine is always dialing out!!! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Try using a DNS server and adding these other machines's IP addresses > (reverses, the numeric in-arpa ones) to your name server database. I tried this to no avail. Thank you for your reply. My domain.db looks like: @ IN SOA mydomain.com. root.mydomain.com. ( 970727 ; Serial 3600 ; Refresh 300 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 3600 ) ; Minimum IN NS gateway.mydomain.com. gateway.mydomain.com. IN A 192.168.0.100 machost.mydomain.com. IN A 192.168.0.101 notebook.mydomain.com. IN A 192.168.0.103 $ORIGIN 0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA IN NS gateway.mydomain.com. 100 IN PTR gateway.mydomain.com. 101 IN PTR machost.mydomain.com. 103 IN PTR notebook.mydomain.com. $ORIGIN 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA IN NS gateway.mydomain.com. 1 IN PTR localhost.mydomain.com.