From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 11 23:30:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10487 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:30:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10482 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:30:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA16811; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:29:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <369AF9D7.799F248A@seattleu.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:29:27 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dan O'Connor" CC: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: User PPP -auto dialout oddity References: <037401be3dfb$e8763860$010a000a@danco.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan O'Connor wrote: > I have 'hosts' before 'bind' in my host.conf file, and resolv.conf points to > my ISP's nameserver. good. > These issues don't really bother me, I'm just interested in understanding > what's going on behind the scenes. It seems either a DNS lookup (but why?) > is initiating dialing or PPP is seeing the request before inetd. > > Any light you can shed is most appreciated. Check your host.conf, it should read: hosts bind -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message