From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 14:26:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA00634 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:26:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA00248 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA24966; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 08:52:38 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA20595; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 08:52:37 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980107085237.29721@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 08:52:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kwoody Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Sendmail... References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Kwoody on Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:40:40PM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:40:40PM -0800, Kwoody wrote: > > Thanks for the replies to the mailing log to myself...but now antoher > quesiont off that: > > a simple mail kwoody < log causes ppp to dial out. > > I am using my ISP as my relay etc...how do I prevent ppp from dialing out > with a simple command like the above? Good question. First, you need to know why it's dialling out. Then you can block that particular message from causing a dialout. At a guess, mail is performing a DNS lookup. You can find out for sure with tcpdump. One alternative would then be to change your DNS configuration. But first, let's see what the cause is. Greg