Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:16:39 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au> To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> Cc: Richard Levenberg <richardl@ufp.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My FreeBSD gateway machine is always dialing out!!! Message-ID: <33E049E7.15A58874@chalmers.com.au> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970731002544.3671A-100000@foo.primenet.com>
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Coming into this late, but wondering how your sendmail is set up? Have you turned off the (default) half hourly mail delivery check in sysconfig? The other thing that will trigger it is having your off-site "default" gateway configured. bob >Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Richard Levenberg wrote: > > > > Try using a DNS server and adding these other machines's IP > addresses > > > (reverses, the numeric in-arpa ones) to your name server database. > > > > > I tried this to no avail. Thank you for your reply. My domain.db > looks > > like: > > > > @ IN SOA mydomain.com. root.mydomain.com. ( > > 970727 ; Serial > > 3600 ; Refresh > > 300 ; Retry > > 3600000 ; Expire > > 3600 ) ; Minimum > > IN NS gateway.mydomain.com. > > > > gateway.mydomain.com. IN A 192.168.0.100 > > machost.mydomain.com. IN A 192.168.0.101 > > notebook.mydomain.com. IN A 192.168.0.103 > > > > $ORIGIN 0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA > > IN NS gateway.mydomain.com. > > 100 IN PTR gateway.mydomain.com. > > 101 IN PTR machost.mydomain.com. > > 103 IN PTR notebook.mydomain.com. > > > > $ORIGIN 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA > > IN NS gateway.mydomain.com. > > 1 IN PTR localhost.mydomain.com. > > When you invoke ftp, do you invoke via the full name, or via the > hostname, > or via IP? Does changing this change the behavior? > > if your modem is off, DNS is on, and you type "host 192.168.0.103" on > the > gateway, do you dial out? > > As for the ftp server, I'm wondering if it does some sort of sanity > checking (I know that Netscape, for example, does "sanity checks" > which > involve external DNS lookups). > > bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> > http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ -- http://www.chalmers.com.au Books-New & Secondhand Support Whirled Peas. Agents for CIBTC. Associate of Amazon.com, and Partner Program with iBS. Books about China, books from China. Sheng huo jiu shi dou zheng Business Links in Dalian, and Beijing. Building the China Trade
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