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From: robigo@winternet.com (John Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: PPP on demand doesn't--why?
Date: 29 Jul 1995 17:47:05 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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I've done what the man page for iijppp says to do to get ppp on
demand, and when I type 'ppp -auto winternet' ppp indeed starts up as
a daemon, but whenever I try to telnet, finger, or ping I get the
message, "No route to host" if the host is in my /etc/hosts, or "host
not found" if it's no in my /etc/hosts. I must be lacking something
obvious, but I can't find it in the man page or in
/usr/share/FAQ/Text.
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John D. Boggs \ The great thing about human language is
jdb@robigo.winternet.com \ that it prevents us from sticking to
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