Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 11:38:03 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail/Dial-Up-Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012031125570.197-100000@natalie.ncptiddische.net>
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Hallo! I have the following question: I have one machine configugred with ppp -auto -nat, so that it establishes a connection to the Internet whenever one of my other machines wants to send packets to the Internet. The other machines are, of course, set up so that their default route points to the ppp-machine. So far, so good. Now, on the other machines I have sendmail running (sendmail -bd), which also works fine BUT whenever I turn on one of these machines, sendmail wants to look something up using the nameserver, and so the boot-process hangs until the ppp-machine has established a connection to the Internet. This bothers me a little. I wonder if there's a way to prevent sendmail from doing that, because I don't see a need for a ppp-connection being established every time I start one of my computers, only for allowing sendmail to do this one nslookup operation (I don't even know WHAT sendmail looks up...) So... does anybody have an idea what I can do so that sendmail starts normally but does *not* establish / need a connection to the Internet? While this behavior is not really a problem for me, I'm just curious if I can do something against it... Greetings, Nils ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nils Holland <nils@nightcastleproductions.org> NightCastle Productions * http://www.nightcastleproductions.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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