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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!cmir.arnes.si!eunet.si!news From: Blaz Zupan <blaz.zupan@medinet.si> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp -auto and netscape Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 20:44:41 +0200 Organization: Nil Lines: 31 Message-ID: <321CAA99.3F54BC7E@medinet.si> References: <321BAA89.2781E494@IAEhv.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: gold.medinet.si Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) To: Rob van Vliet <rvv@IAEhv.nl> Rob van Vliet wrote: > I run FreeBSD 2.1.5 and "ppp -auto ISP", no named. > Every time I start Netscape 3.0b6 the ppp program starts dialing out, > while there's no reason for a connection, as far as I can see. > Anybody experienced this problem as well? > Any idea what's the reason for this behaviour? Yep, the problem is that navigator resolves something with DNS (probably the name of your machine) and this is what triggers ppp to dial. If you put this in your ppp.conf it shouldn't happen anymore: set dfilter 0 deny udp dst eq 53 set dfilter 1 permit 0/0 0/0 This blocks port 53 (the DNS port) from triggering a dial. Unfortunatelly when you do this netscape doesn't start up at all :( I'm not quite sure what one could do about this, maybe setting up your own nameserver with enough data to keep netscape happy would do it. If you get any useful answers by mail, I'd like to get them, too :) Blaz -- Blaz Zupan, blaz.zupan@medinet.si, http://www.medinet.si/~blaz Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia