Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:18:30 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: User PPP -auto dialout oddity Message-ID: <037401be3dfb$e8763860$010a000a@danco.home>
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Hi gang,
I have a Win98 machine connected to my FreeBSD box over a LAN, and I'm
running User PPP with -alias and -auto (through start_if.tun0) to connect to
my ISP using a dynamic IP address.
One oddity: Whenever I FTP or telnet into the FreeBSD machine, it dials out
and connects with my ISP before ftpd or telnetd answer.
Also, on startup, sendmail always causes PPP to dial out, even though I
removed the 'q30m' from rc.conf.
I have 'hosts' before 'bind' in my host.conf file, and resolv.conf points to
my ISP's nameserver.
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.
--Dan
P.S. Here's the output from ifconfig -a:
lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ep0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.10.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.10.255
ether 00:10:4b:c4:2a:e3
tun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1524
inet 127.1.1.1 --> 127.2.2.2 netmask 0xff000000
inet 207.228.61.21 --> 206.14.169.19 netmask 0xffffff00
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
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