Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 09:10:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, doconnor@Ist.flinders.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Divert sockets.. Message-ID: <19970908091046.29405@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709071950.MAA24121@usr07.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 07:50:52PM %2B0000 References: <199709071500.QAA23059@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <199709071950.MAA24121@usr07.primenet.com>
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On Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 07:50:52PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> Or maybe he's like me, and he can't get the thing to idle disconnect >>> because of the !@#$! keep-alives that are near-impossible to turn >>> off if you have a local net as well. >> >> Hmm. I have a local net of 8 machines, and I don't have any such >> problems. Of course you know about "set afilter". > > Sure. I just don't know what packets are triggering it. There's > almost nothing running at all (literally; no routed, named, > whatever). Who says it has to be at your end? > And there's the annoying localhost DNS lookup, even though host.conf > has "hosts" first, and the name of the machine I'm rlogin'ing into > is in /etc/hosts (it's myself). It triggers the PPP dial anyway, > and I think that should only happen for non-local hosts. Well, why aren't you running named? It's faster than looking up /etc/hosts. And if you don't tell the world it's there, it's not going to get any external traffic. >> The thing I don't understand is how re-writing anything is going to >> solve a problem where people want the link to shutdown subliminally :-) > > Change the ground rules on the shutdown, for one... different issues > for SLIP/ISDN, for another. Why? Greg
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