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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:04:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: named initial lookup?
Message-ID:  <20020713220421.72243.qmail@web14902.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020713214659.GC22908@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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--- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> Oh well, worth a try.  You can stop the dialup happening by adding
> some packet filtering rules in your ppp config --- this should
> prevent
> dialing triggered by DNS lookups:

good idea! I will ban those damn packets!

> See the ppp(8) man page section `PACKET FILTERING' and
> /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample

I must say, the FreeBSD packet filter tool is just *ultra* cool. That
statefull keep/check states are killer!!

> If there's an executable startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d called

Somehow those services are not being started (I cant see any of their
processes using ps). I have to call squid from rc.local.

> I doubt you'll need to change from the default though.

Yup, done that before.

> See the mailwrapper(8) and mailer.conf(5) man pages for how to
> configure an alternate MTA as a drop in replacement for sendmail.

thanks,

Paulo

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