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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP on demand doesn't--why? Date: 30 Jul 1995 11:39:41 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3vfr1t$aic@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3vds6p$gnq@blackice.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3vds6p$gnq@blackice.winternet.com>, John Boggs <robigo@winternet.com> wrote: >I've done what the man page for iijppp says to do to get ppp on >demand, and when I type 'ppp -auto winternet' ppp indeed starts up as >a daemon, but whenever I try to telnet, finger, or ping I get the >message, "No route to host" if the host is in my /etc/hosts, or "host Sounds like you don't have it configured to add a default route. Try putting this in your /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup file: MYADDR: add 0 0 HISADDR Also, change the order of "bind" and "hosts" in your /etc/host.conf file. Jordan