Having pppd come up at boot is part of the problem. That's what RH
does by default, so I don't set up ppp during installation. Instead, I
use the ppp-on and ppp-off scripts, as described in the PPP-client HOWTO.
The other thing is, I don't put the ISP nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf.
The only place I put them is in the ppp-on script, so they effectively
don't exist for my system until the link comes up. If you need to see
them, let me know, and I'll e-mail them to you with the passwords
removed.
Jack Carroll
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Paul Wittry wrote:
> ---Reply to mail from Fuzzy Fox about [masq] Masquerade and pppd Demand Dialing---
>
>
> >
> > What machine do you suppose it's looking up? A local machine's name?
> > Why would it go to an external DNS lookup, just to lookup a local host's
> > name?
>
> I believe it is looking up the ISP nameserver addresses in the
> /etc/resolv.conf file. Not a local machine's name. Obviously the ISP is
> not a local address. ;-)
> >
>
> Seems to me that would be accomplished by the /etc/hosts.conf file, with
>
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
>
> which as you can see gives the order to lookup hosts, first. So I am
> beginning to now wonder what I can put in the /etc/hosts file to stop the
> lookup there instead of going on to dial and find the one's that I have
> configured in /etc/resolv.conf?
>
> I am also wondering if it has anything to do with having enabled PPP in
> the kernal, and loading the module at boot. I suppose I can figure that
> out pretty quick.
>
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