Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:57:26 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
Cc:        Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail and ppp -auto 
Message-ID:  <199709272257.XAA06540@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:10:55 %2B0200." <199709272210.AAA13087@bitbox.follo.net> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > 
> > I just started using ppp -auto, and whenever sendmail starts up or I
> > get any new mail, ppp connects to my ISP.  How do I trace this?  I
> > don't know how.  Is there something I should add to my sendmail
> > configuration?
> 
> You need to add -DNAMED_BIND=0 to your sendmail compilation.  (Yeah,
> this mean you have to recompile sendmail.  Doing that together with
> having a FEATURE(nodns)dnl in the sendmail.mc file is the only way
> I've found to stop this).
> 
> Eivind.

Or you could just set some dfilters for port 25 & 53 in ppp.conf.  
Check out the FAQ section 10 for details (and a DNS example).
-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199709272257.XAA06540>