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From: Ian W Taylor <iwta@beckley.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pinging myself
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 19:45:47 GMT
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Message-ID: <808515947snz@beckley.demon.co.uk>
References: <808168572snz@beckley.demon.co.uk> <40n1jo$isa@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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In article <40n1jo$isa@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de "J Wunsch" writes:
>
> Does it perchance try to DNS lookup the name?
> --
Looks like it does. Having installed ppp -auto ondemand
pinging myself works fine, but ppp dials out and connects
to my ISP before the 'pings' start to be returned. However
there is no line traffic (according to the modems lights)
for the actual ping packets.
Before installing ppp I had tried the suggestions made.
Changing the netmask made no difference and neither did
altering /etc/host.conf so that it has the hosts line
before the bind line. The /etc/hosts file has always
had a line in it for beckley and beckley.demon.co.uk.
However even ping 158.152.59.213 doesn't start working
until the ppp link is up. I presume this is for a
request for the 'name' for that numeric IP addr.