From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 7 09:11:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21644 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 09:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21578 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 09:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11369; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 16:23:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199806071523.QAA11369@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Doug White cc: Evren Yurtesen , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 14:16:44 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 16:23:56 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > also when I try to open netscape on my win95 machine > > my freebsd box automatically connects but anyway > > netscape still says that it could not find the dns > > entry of the site which it is supposed to connect. > > > > what may I be doing wrong??? > > After it dials up reload, ppp tends to eat the packet the causes the > dialout. Well, not quite. There's a description of why this happens in the userppp part of the FAQ - it's because the interface is re-numbered *after* the program that triggered the dial has bind()ed the socket. That program will forever send packets with the old source IP :-( > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message