From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 7:34:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82AB37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 07:34:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from supermail.mweb.co.za (supermail.mweb.co.za [196.2.53.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8CC43FA3 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 07:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dj_boris@mail.ru) Received: from [196.7.205.133] (helo=d) by supermail.mweb.co.za with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 18uWHZ-0007AR-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:26:25 +0200 Message-ID: <003601c2ebaf$77fd2c40$85cd07c4@d> From: "DJ Boris" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: how can I stop named to dial out at startup Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 13:29:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi there, I use named to only forward dns requests (if any). every time I start it (manually from the command line) it dials out. then the ppp times out after 3 mins, connection gets dropped and everything geos back to normal. as soon as a dns request arrives ppp kicks in.. and so on and so on. in named.conf I have forward only and have set forwarders. so everything is OK but just that initial dial out at start up is annoying me. i have read named.conf manual and there is says that you can put "dialup yes" have done that but no luck and I think this option is more for proper dns and doesn't apply to dns forwarding any ideas? thanx dj_boris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message