On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 08:41, Jan Arne Fagertun wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steffen Evers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > After some more testing I have found out that this occures whenever > > sending a mail, no matter whereto (localhost, MyMachineName or > > somewhere else). My dial on demand is always invoked by DNS querying > > for MyMachine. I will do some more reading. Hopefully I can > > stop that by > > changing my exim.conf file somehow. Maybe a new exim version has > > introduced a default behavior that causes this. > > Sorry if I am misunderstanding; for some stupid reason I haven't > followed this discussion..... > > I am experiencing similar problems - my Dial On Demand triggers often > when some program wants to contact localhost. Among those is leafnode; > I am running a local news-spool (leafnode), and whenever I post a new > news message, or even if I access a newsgroup, the ISDN connection is > started. Another is ssh.... > > To me it seems like there is something wrong with the configuration of > the "lo" interface - in fact it doesn't even appear in the "route" > list. hi, *
after installation of my woody, there was a similar (same ?) problem. the loopback was loaded but got no ip address (no "iface lo inet loopback"-entry in /etc/network/interfaces )and no /etc/hosts-entry. I don't know, weather it caused lookups, because of being allways online with dsl-flat. by frank
