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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PP Connection.
Date: 6 Jun 1997 10:55:12 GMT
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In article <339575A9.63F3674E@ovnet.com>,
	David Calvarese <darshu@ovnet.com> writes:
> I'm trying to set FreeBSD 3.0 (snap-970527) up to work with a service
> called Dynamic DNS from www.ml.org.  What I need it to do when it
> connects is to run a program that will sent my current IP address to
> ml.org and update the DNS.  I've got my automatic connection set up so
> that FreeBSD connects to my ISP immediatly upon startup.  My question is
> how can I force it to execute this program whenever the user PPP program
> connects to my ISP?

Check out the pmdemand entry /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup.sample.

> Dave
> darshu@ovnet.com
> 

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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