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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User ppp dialing needlessly Date: 16 Jan 1996 11:14:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4dg1be$gtb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cse48$c2i@cyber1.servtech.com> <kientzleDL3E1F.FBI@netcom.com> <821541072.9149@pencotts.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> writes: > >b) sendmail. I haven't completely tracked this down, but the > One partial solution is to run your own nameserver (probably a > caching-only one, which then forwards all requests to the system you > were using previously, plus perhaps a bogus authoritative entry for > your own machine). This won't fix everything, but will reduce the > level of DNS activity - particularly when sending mail to yourself. I'm doing just this, plus i've added the FEATURE(nodns)dnl FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl in the sendmail.mc file. (I refuse to hack sendmail.cf directly anymore.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)