On Mar 03, 1997 at 10:04:38AM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > > command: telnet xxxx > actions: (1) telnet fires up resolves host addresses and tries to connect > (2) diald wakesup and makes connection > (3) connection is setup but telnet still hanging
Yes, the diald documentation clearly explains why this occurs; > Here is some config info. > > for diald > dynamic This is the cause. Because diald does not know the address (at this end) for the connection, you have to use a dummy one, and so your first connection will never succeed. Likewise connections can't be re-established if your address changes. My family of non-computer-literate people use the internet through a Linux box of mine running diald & IP masquerading. To start the link, to avoid this problem, I have a CGI script running from the web server (apache) which uses diald's fifo option to bring the link up. I have diald set never to bring the link up on particular traffic, only by explicit request. And drop the link after 20 minutes idle. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [**** ] 40%
