From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 10:29:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22177 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22158 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:29:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #3) id 1008X6-000Fpv-00; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:27:16 +0000 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:27:16 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: User PPP -auto dialout oddity Message-ID: <19990112182716.A60807@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <037401be3dfb$e8763860$010a000a@danco.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <037401be3dfb$e8763860$010a000a@danco.home> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan O'Connor wrote: > Also, on startup, sendmail always causes PPP to dial out, even though I > removed the 'q30m' from rc.conf. > > I have 'hosts' before 'bind' in my host.conf file, and resolv.conf points to > my ISP's nameserver. One thought: try putting bind before hosts, and starting named with the "-q" option, this will cause it to log all DNS requests, if any are being made. This may help with both problems, since you can hardcode the relevant entries into /etc/hosts. There may be other ways, this is just one. (I suspect when you FTP or telnet in it tries to get the remote machines hostname. If this is already in /etc/hosts though I don't know what's going on.) named itself always seems to cause a dialout on startup here, I think it's trying to contact the nameservers I have specified or something. If you don't run named normally, the default configuration should work for this test. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message