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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
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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