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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message