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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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