From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 02:03:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04473 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 02:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mserv1b.u-net.net (mserv1b.u-net.net [195.102.240.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA04467 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 02:03:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjp@kietra.u-net.com) Received: from (mars) [194.119.133.210] by mserv1b.u-net.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z1oaY-0003Je-00; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:01:31 +0100 Message-ID: <35C03744.78F1@kietra.u-net.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:05:08 +0100 From: "Richard J. Pontefract" Reply-To: rjp@kietra.u-net.com Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Hall CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking problem References: <35BF50BB.C0AE8CDC@mcg-graphics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi How is you're DNS configured? It may be trying to resolve the host name of the machine that is connecting by to the internet first. What does /etc/host.conf say? Is bind listed before hosts? Hope this helps. Rick Gary Hall wrote: > > We are having a problem with FreeBSD when trying to connect to it > remotely via FTP or rlogin. The problem is that the FreeBSD machine > tries to connect to the Internet via our router whenever anyone tries to > log in. Our router then tries to dial up onto the Internet via ISDN. > Until the connection is made, it refuses to accept any internal > connections. > > Why, when FTP-ing from a PC to a FreeBSD machine, both on a local > ethernet network, would the FreeBSD machine decide to dial the Internet > ? > > Any replies would be appreciated, as this is getting expensive ! > > Gary Hall > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard J. Pontefract Email: rjp@kietra.u-net.com WWW: http://www.kietra.u-net.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message