From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 9:18:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2DE37B404 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:18:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E415E43FA3 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:18:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2GHI7Tb010287; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:18:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E74B1B3.1080306@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:17:39 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJ Boris Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: how can I stop named to dial out at startup References: <001f01c2ebc5$b67c7690$85cd07c4@d> <3E748FEE.9000902@potentialtech.com> <003001c2ebd0$32b73e70$85cd07c4@d> In-Reply-To: <003001c2ebd0$32b73e70$85cd07c4@d> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG DJ Boris wrote: > yes I have dialup yes. > my named.conf is actually quite simple as I only use it for dns forwarding > therefore I don't actually need to set the heartbeat-interval. if I start > named, let it dial, wait for the ppp time out to expire and leave the system > for days without any traffic it doesn't dial. so it is working properly. the > only thing that I can't uinderstand is why named makes ppp dial out when it > is only suppoed to forward dns requests. and I have no other app that does > dns requests. I'm not 100% sure I understand you here. You seem to think that forwarding DNS requests should not cause DNS to trigger a dial. This would only be true if your forwarders did not require a dial to reach. I don't understand your concern with the fact that it dials on startup. Do you start and stop the DNS server a lot? If you really need it to stop, add suppress-initial-notify to yes. See if that helps. Hope I've said something here that is helpful. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Moran" > To: "DJ Boris" > Cc: "freebsd-questions" > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 4:53 PM > Subject: Re: how can I stop named to dial out at startup > > > >>DJ Boris wrote: >> >>>hi there, >>> >>>I use named to only forward dns requests (if any). every time I start it >>>(manually from the command line) it dials out. then the ppp times out > > after > >>>3 mins, connection gets dropped and everything geos back to normal. as > > soon > >>>as a dns request arrives ppp kicks in.. and so on and so on. >>> >>>in named.conf I have forward only and have set forwarders. so everything > > is > >>>OK but just that initial dial out at start up is annoying me. >>> >>>i have read named.conf manual and there is says that you can put "dialup >>>yes" have done that but no luck and I think this option is more for > > proper > >>>dns and doesn't apply to dns forwarding >> >>Did you put the "dialup yes" as a global option? If not, it might only > > apply > >>to certain zones, and other zones will update as needed. >> >>Also, did you set the "heartbeat-interval"? I don't know what the default > > is, > >>but you'll probably want to set it pretty high. >> >>Also, the system will _always_ dial out if it doesn't have the DNS > > information > >>requested. >> >>Just some thoughts. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message