From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 23:44: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gladstone.uoregon.edu (gladstone.uoregon.edu [128.223.142.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A61214A08 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:43:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbeaucha@gladstone.uoregon.edu) Received: from agent00ds (cisco-ts12-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.133]) by gladstone.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA07706 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nechaboi@localhost) by agent00ds (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00567 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:47:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nechaboi) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:47:11 -0700 From: tbeaucha@gladstone.uoregon.edu To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -auto is trigger-happy Message-ID: <19990928234711.C441@agent00ds.uoregon.edu> References: <37F07156.903184DE@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:25:48AM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:25:48AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Richard Morte wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone help explain why ppp in -auto -alias mode dials out as soon > > as I click in the location field in Netscape? Do I need to set up IP > > filtering? Without some sort of filtering or additional configuration I > > don't seem to be able to browse documents on the local machine without > > accessing the modem. > > Netscape does a DNS lookup the very first chance it gets. This will > cause a dialout, unless you've blocked DNS from activating a callout. > I'm having the same problems. In fact, even starting the enlightenment config program causes ppp -auto to dial up. Same thing when sending mail from within mutt. Even though I have told sendmail to queue messages (sendmail -0 DeliveryMode=d -O HoldExpensive). Actually what it does is dial up, then stick them in the queue without delivering them. I assume that these are also caused because of DNS lookups. So anyway, I'd really like to be disable DNS lookups from causing ppp -auto to dial. How can I do this? I assume that I want to re-enable DNS in ppp.linkup. Thanks a ton, Tiller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message