On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:31:36AM -0700, Paulo Roberto wrote:

> I have a on-demand link configured in freebsd, and every time the
> system boots, when named starts, it sends a packet to the fake ip
> (sticky route) port 53 (I made a firewall rule to block everything and
> log so I could find what was going on) and initiates the dial.
> Is it an initial check up from bind? Is there a way to disable this?
> I even added this address to my database as localhost, so it wouldn?t
> look this address up, put it did not worked, it still starts the dial.

Could well be sendmail --- it does a bit of DNS work to establish it's
own identity when it starts up.  Unfortunately you can't fake it via
/etc/hosts as sendmail bypasses that and uses the DNS directly.

        Cheers,

        Matthew

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