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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: idled and pap, popper
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> idled will not logoff pap connections (either on user-ppp or pppd). Any
> solutions?

Try my program ftp.hilink.com.au:/pub/FreeBSD/ifidled.tgz

> Also, I notice popper is very slow. The reason appears to be that it is
> doing a nameserver lookup on the connecting host. Any proceedure to disable
> this and speed up pop?

Fix your nameserver so it responds quickly - all of your IP addresses 
should have valid names.

Danny