From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 18 17:03:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02476 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:03:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02328 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:02:44 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10558; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:58:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199804182358.AAA10558@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Capriotti cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP filtering In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 19:05:54 -0300." <3.0.32.19691231210000.00a22e30@pop.mpc.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:58:20 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When I boot the machine, for soome reason, it starts dialing and wants to > stabilish a connection, w/o any requisition, aparently. > > I read the man pages, the ppp.conf.filter.sample, but I couldn't get it to > work right. [.....] http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html talks about how to track this sort of thing down. It's probably sendmail trying to determine the local host info (it asks your nameserver or the one in /etc/ resolv.conf). -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message