Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:35:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -auto question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811161635030.17775-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <13903.42895.850081.788100@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org>
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On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > Before I upgraded to a current -current (previously running -current > from 12/97, now 11/11/98), when my ppp -auto disconnected, I set up my > ppp.linkdown to delete the old default route and set the default route > to a non-existant ip (10.0.2.20) that was the gateway ip address for > the now inactive ppp link. > > The ppp.conf file had > set ifaddr 10.0.2.15/0 10.0.2.20/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 > > The ppp.linkdown had > MYADDR: > delete default > add default 10.0.2.20 > > This worked really well, as sendmail would try to do a name lookup on > the link and I had 10.0.2.20 known to my local named. However, with > the way ppp works now, sendmail does a name lookup on the ip address > of the now inactive link, which forces ppp to reconnect to the ISP if > named has invalidated the IP from its cache. Is there any way to get > the old behaviour to work again? When I did a little fiddling around > with it, I either would get complaints about the default route already > existing or it wouldn't dial out after the first time. > > Any suggestions? There is a dialout filter that you can set to not cause DNS lookups to spawn a dialout. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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