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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Some PPP and Routing Problems Date: 25 Feb 1997 00:28:54 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5etbo6$c0u@news.cc.utah.edu> References: <seth.leigh-1002971332000001@s_leigh.dtint.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36057 In article <seth.leigh-1002971332000001@s_leigh.dtint.com> seth.leigh@dtint.com (Seth Leigh) writes: [ ... ] >Oh yeah, even when I did think everything was working the other day, I >couldn't telnet from the Mac to the Unix machine (over the local ethernet >I put between them) unless the ppp could successfully make a connection >over the modem. Why should telnetting to the FreeBSD locally cause ppp to >dial up? I was telnetting to the host name of the FreeBSD machine. And you were probably using tcsh as your shell, or some other shell which tries to do a DNS lookup of the connecting machine to get a cannonical host name. You should run a local DNS caching server with authority for your local machines. Depending on how it is being triggered, you may only have to put a local /etc/hosts entry for the machine, and change /etc/host.conf to search hosts before searching bind. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.